Flickr--when peopel ask to use your photos

Here's the background. I've had a few people contact me about using pictures from my Flickr site. One was a non-profit for New Orleans group that put out a free brochure on the city. They wanted one of the hotel pictures. Since it's a free brochure and for New Orleans, I asked for attribution but no $$.

Now, I have a (small time--NOT big time) documentary person asking to use two pictures. Generally, as long as I get attribution, I am fine with people using it. Am I being gullible?

It's totally your call. I allow my photos to be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. Since I don't have any intention of making money off my photos, at least until I learn to make better ones, I'm not really bothered by it.

But they're yours. If you think they're worth something, ask for something.

Unless I get the feeling that whoever asks to use my photos will use them to make a lot of money, I let them do so for free. Also, unless I know my photo is incredibly good and special, which it seldom is, I'm happy to just be credited. Coming into a restaurant and see a photo of mine on the wall, or to see my animal portraits having been chosen to illustrate a creature on Wikipedia is most satisfying!

Bjørn
http://bjornfree.com/

You could ask them to link to your blog on their site, or just mention the URL in their publication.

At least then you might make some Amazon.com book sales.