Awesome.

That’s the way PR should be handled — in an efficient, personable manner that shows that they’re not just pushing canned responses, but willing to learn.

Thanks BMD.

Thanks for your clear explanation, and several other flikr members have also conveyed that the email was phrased poorly; which I will take full responsibility. Unfortunately, many of those concerned did not check the website to accurately find out if we had posted (and in case, we haven’t violated any CC license terms and agreements.)

We are always encountering issues of authorship in our work, and we completely understand crediting work and professional behavior. It is implied that we would give full credits to the work and permission; we simply wouldn’t operate otherwise as a business.

We are still collecting, curating, selecting photo; deciding on which make the cut, and sending out permission request. Some photos we still need hi-res versions.

Our main attempt with the email was to gauge the temperature of social, collective enterprises as well as new way to curate our work. That being, “Our work seen by Others”. It is really easy to post photos we take and very conventional, the idea was looking and displaying how others perceive and photograph our work.

Your photo was an Indigo signage project. Thanks for crediting us with the work and sticking up for us on the comments.

Unfortunately, some of the photos don’t even credit BMD as the author of the work, which is similar to the CC license issue you are taking with my email. To that end, we aren’t concerned with policing sites such as flickr.

If anyone would ask us not to use the photo it won’t go up. Best of luck in your professional endeavors. As for our web 2.0, perhaps.

I’m not sure if it’s an issue of language but the reply seems to deflect blame. I have no need to know about other people not crediting BMD. What I need to have is my concerns addressed.

While he does reference the photo in question, he still fails to provide a link to it. He still doesn’t provide any links (or tangible information as) to where or how the photo will be used.

Worst of all — he still maintains that the photos will be removed if people email him. This is still in contravention of the license which prohibit commercial use. He needs to ask before posting the photos rather than giving an opt-out option.