heidi8:

Via Cory Doctrow and BoingBoing:

Late last month, Yahoo updated the Flickr pages for each image in a way that removed all the structured Creative Commons license data, breaking the [attributr] script. And CC users who tried to make use of the images Flickr is privileged to host found that replicating the attribution text by hand was nearly impossible. The page used scripts that intercepted copy-to-clipboard shortcuts and also broke text-selection, so that it was nearly impossible to copy the name of image or the name of its creator to your clipboard unless you found it in the page’s source-code.

Click the link to learn how to fix it (for now) and why the changes Yahoo has made to flickr are problematic for those who entrusted their Creative Commons-licensed photos to the site. 

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