Flickr Freak

Creative Commons, the non-profit organization behind the Creative Commons licences, is hosting the CC Swag 2006 Photo Contest on Flickr. The idea is that you upload your pictures of CC swag to your account and submit it to the contest pool.

Obviously, you first need to get hold of some CC gear, which is available from their store and helps support the cause. You can get shirts, buttons and other stuff, but the goal is of course to be as cool and creative with it as possible.

According to the Flickr Blog, there are some 22 million CC licenced photo’s available already – an amazing number. The contest pool only counts six (!) today, but that will surely change between now and 6 December when the contest closes.

Prizes include personalized voice mail messages from the Creative Commons board (such as Lawrence Lessig, which might be neat if you knew who he is – well, I do now), but also (perhaps more interesting for budding photographers trying to get their work publicized) promotional CC postcards featuring your work. That is cool, since this material will be distributed worldwide.

Start snapping and remember, make your work available if you can so that the world can share and enjoy it even more.

Also, watch the CC videos and support the organization by clicking the ad at the end.

Image under CC by 1of@kind