What happened to millions of Creative Commons-licensed photos in Flickr? | Bryan Alexander

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-04-07

Summary:

"Something weird and potentially bad just happened to the Flickr photo-sharing site.  Specifically, their page listing photos published under Creative Commons licenses now shows far, far fewer of them. Where once there were tens of millions, there are now 400,000 and fewer. What happened, Flickr?  Yahoo, do you know anything? Here’s a bit more background.  Flickr is one of the oldest, great social photo sharing sites.  I joined it way back in 2004 (my photos), pretty soon after it launched, and found the service extremely useful.  It’s a fine place to share my images, an unusual place for getting feedback, a terrific site to discover other images, and good, even unique, at a bunch of other functions everyone should know.

One of its fine aspects is supporting search for non-copyrighted photos.  We can look just for images uploaded under the Creative Commons license suite (which everyone should know about; here’s a starter).  It’s a grand way to find materials for your next movie, PowerPoint, blog post, or whatever ..."

Link:

http://bryanalexander.org/2015/04/06/what-happened-to-millions-of-creative-commons-licensed-photos-in-flickr/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.images oa.flickr oa.copyright oa.licensing oa.cc oa.libre

Date tagged:

04/07/2015, 08:03

Date published:

04/07/2015, 04:02