This weekend, I was contacted by one of the Wikipedia admins for permission to use some of my Lemony Snicket photographs for their entries on Daniel Handler and Lemony Snicket. Being a huge supporter and user of Wikipedia, I was glad to assist, even as it meant changing the licenses on the photos from my standard of Creative Commons 2.0 Attribution-Non Commercial to Creative Commons 2.0 Atrribution Share-Alike.
A more detailed look at Creative Commons Licenses (with examples) is here.
One of the questions that comes up is that now that the photos used in Wikipedia have been released as "Share Alike" without the No-Derivative Works or Non-Commercial stipulations, couldn't someone actually make money off my photographs? Yes, however, it's higly unlikely, and any derivative works created using my original work would have to be licensed under the same Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.
For more regarding why Non-commerical images aren't used on Wikipedia.
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