It’s interesting that Flickr (and also YouTube of course..) are not in the space of “just” providing hosting, but also that there is some flexibility for NFPs. It would seem a natural business model to me for Flickr (and YouTube, and others..) to provide a commercial framework for this but I guess for now we just watch and learn…
What’s interesting is that – given Flickr provide a strong API – they don’t actually *know* where or how these images are being used. In fact you could argue that just by providing this API functionality they are *exactly* doing what they say they don’t – providing image hosting for 3rd party websites…