<p>For years, Flickr has been one of the most important repositories of Creative Commons imagery in the world; now, thanks to a new design, it's all but useless for serving and attributing the CC-licensed images it's been entrusted with by museums, galleries, national archives, libraries, and millions of individuals.</p><p>You may know that Flickr is one of the largest repositories of freelyusable public domain and Creative Commons photos in the world, hostingcollections contributed by libraries, national archives, foundations,museums, galleries, and individual users (I've uploaded morethan 10,000 CC-BY-SA images of my own). However, with its latestredesign, Flickr has made is very difficult to copy the images it hasbeen entrusted with, and nearly impossible to correctly attribute themin accord with their license terms.</p><p>Today, we're fixing that. A little, anyway.</p><p>Years ago, Boing Boing reader Cory Dodt (no relation, obviously) createda script called "attributr" that took the structured license datain each Flickr image page and created a snippet of text that set outthe permalink for the image, its creator's name, and the license itwas released under, along with a link to the license -- for example:</p><p><a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/04/07/restoring-cc-attribution-to-fl.html">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/media/2014/04/08/yahoo-owned-flickr-messes-creative-commons-metadata-boing-boing-steps-try-fix/">Yahoo-Owned Flickr Messes Up Creative Commons Metadata</a> (The Next Web)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dDUl1wfxN6RNtVM17c4xtmihumwuM&authuser=0&ned=us">2 additional articles.</a></p>