My Flickr photographs are all posted with a Creative Commons licence that allows anyone to use those photographs subject to an attribution. I just take photographs for fun, so I see no reason to stop anyone else from using them.

As a result, my photographs are used all over the place on the web, but increasingly they’re being used in other places, too. In August 2008, a quick snap of a back street in Barcelona made it onto the front cover of a CD, which I was thrilled about; and early in 2009, I was flying on a BMI plane and reading their inflight magazine to see another of my photographs which was quite cool to see.

Today, through the post, comes a copy of the Boston Review, complete with a photograph that I took a couple of years ago in Canary Wharf. The Boston Review, like any large company, sent me an email first to check I was cool with them using my photo, and asked me how my credit should look.

Adding Creative Commons licences to your photos only takes a minute – you can specifically ban commercial use if you want – and it’s something well worth doing if you like the thrill of your work being used elsewhere.

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