SnagIt, Flickr and NIPSA
Posted on Friday July 7, 2006 by Betsy Weber
As many of you know, I love Flickr and use it a lot! I have almost 2,000 photos posted on their site here. Since SnagIt's Flickr profiles were released, I've seen a few places around the internet suggesting that TechSmith is violating Flickr's user guidelines by allowing users to post screenshots. Not true. I wanted to make sure you know that TechSmith is not violating Flickr's user guidelines.
Flickr has a policy stating any account (free or paid) that has more than half of their images as non-photographic content (screenshots, etc.) will be turned from public to private.
Basically this means that once a user has over half of his images as non-photographic content, his images on Flickr will no longer be made searchable by the greater Flickr community or viewable in the public area. If Flickr finds your account having more than half of your content as non-photographic content, they may mark you as NIPSA - 'Not in Public Site Areas'. Users that reach this state will still be able to upload and share images on Flickr.
We created the Flickr add-in to give users an easy way to upload and share their SnagIt images. Flickr's screenshot policy was in place before our relationship began with them and was acknowledged when we made our agreement. We are abiding by all current policies of Flickr. And, we will continue abide by Flickr's policies even if that means that one day we may have to discontinue our integration if they ask us to.
To refer to Flickr's community guidelines, click here.
If you have any additional questions or concerns, feel free to add them to the comments or e-mail me.
