This must be a Flickr scam right? Right?

JO420

So i woke up this morning to this email in my Flickr account.

Hello, JO420!

This is an automatically generated copy of a help case reply:

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Greetings from the FlickrHQ!

It’s been a remarkable year for Flickr and the people at Time Magazine have contacted us about featuring photos from the Flickrverse in an upcoming issue. Needless to say, we’re thrilled.

We’re reaching out to you as they would like to publish a photo that you recently shared on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7675643@N03/3013086232

Time is of the essence! If you are interested, please contact the Time Magazine Picture Department via ******@****.com as they have a very tight deadline.

Regards,

****

*******,
Director of Community, Flickr



I checked out the name of this director of community and it seems to check out i also wrote back to the email asking for a reply back. My first instinct is scam but who knows.

Entity

It might be real. Getty has been looking around flickr too.

danr

hmmm, nothing about it on FlickrCentral, either way - which is odd, considering you expect a good few people to be contacted. Maybe make a post?

JO420

I wrote to flickr to inquire about the help ticket to see if there is some validity to the request,if so it would sure be cool. But im also real skeptical of requests like this.

JO420

danr wrote: »

hmmm, nothing about it on FlickrCentral, either way - which is odd, considering you expect a good few people to be contacted. Maybe make a post?

Good idea



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oXYnary

Look at the full header of the email. You can see if its spoofed (not always but many times).

JO420

Well if it is a scam,flickr knows about it know since i wrote to them to ask about it. Im sure they would act fast if the name of their community director was being used in the scam.

Rick Stirling

I had mails like that before (not from Time), and I've had photos published and credited.

JO420

Woot,it is not a scam, i got an email from Flickr confirming it was true.

JO420

Rick Stirling wrote: »

I had mails like that before (not from Time), and I've had photos published and credited.

Thats awesome,where did you get one published?

Rick Stirling

Schmap Edinburgh and List.

Joshua Stubbles

I was published on like yahoo maps, or something like that as well. They're always looking for pics on there.

Irreal

Ha! I got a photo published with schmap too for making Liverpool look like a nice place.

pliang

That kind of request does happen and congrats on the opportunity.

JO420

I just got email confirmation from Time Magazine, picture will make the issue and i will be credited by name. Im so excited.

MoP

that's pretty cool

gonna get credit from the graffiti artist too?

JasonLavoie

MoP wrote: »

that's pretty cool

gonna get credit from the graffiti artist too?

Zing!

Cool to hear man, do you know what issue?

Slum

MoP is joking, but seriously, that sort of thing happens all the time. Somebody snags a photo of art, then sells the photo as art. It boggles my mind. With this rationality, taking my minidv cam to the theater and recording a film can be considered filmmaking.

JO420

JasonLavoie wrote: »

Zing!

Cool to hear man, do you know what issue?

No, i imagine next decmber or Jan issue, Mop im actually going to try to find the artist to let em know. Hopefully i can but that part of town is swimming in grafitti artists. The stretch of wall where that was painted is half a mile in distance and its like a collage of various artists who constantly paint over it .

I was lucky to get that pic,it was after the election was final at 6am my time that i decided to go walk around since i was too excited to sleep,i had my digi cam with me and snapped it and the next day later is was gone.

FYI i made no money off it.

diminished_Self

congrats javy. they going to require you to give up copyright control over this image or do you retain that?

JohnnyRaptor

dang, photo published in times magazine? thats pretty badass! congrats! now i might create a flickr account finally and hope to land the dice roll!

Jeremy Lindstrom

diminished_Self wrote: »

congrats javy. they going to require you to give up copyright control over this image or do you retain that?

I would think the original artist would hold the copyright if there were to be any.

Tumerboy

HA HA! Awesome!

diminished_Self

Dekard wrote: »

I would think the original artist would hold the copyright if there were to be any.

not sure about that...my dad is an amateur photographer, and he's submitted stuff and had it published by time, newsweek, and our local papers, and in every instance they require you to give up any and all copyright rights to the image in total. they own it out right, im sure to cover their ass's if you decided that hey, i deserve some $$$ for that photo, they made big bucks on that magazine/paper, im going to sue!

JO420

diminished_Self wrote: »

not sure about that...my dad is an amateur photographer, and he's submitted stuff and had it published by time, newsweek, and our local papers, and in every instance they require you to give up any and all copyright rights to the image in total. they own it out right, im sure to cover their ass's if you decided that hey, i deserve some $$$ for that photo, they made big bucks on that magazine/paper, im going to sue!

Well i signed nothing away to do this,all i did was give persmission for it to be used. If they somehow owned any right to it id like to know how. Nor did i submit the photo,from what ive read around in flickr they seem to be picking several pictures of Barack Obama artwork.

hawken

Slum wrote: »

[...]Somebody snags a photo of art, then sells the photo as art. It boggles my mind. With this rationality, taking my minidv cam to the theater and recording a film can be considered filmmaking.

actually, I know what you mean.

moose

thats awesome!! congrats!