To learn more, visit:, as well as The Commons FAQ for frequently asked questions and to apply to join the Flickr Commons. IBM isn’t the only one doing this malpractice. IBM decided to concentrate on 1 million photos and gave the faces measurements for each including age, tone and gender. To learn more, visit: and Contact Flickr to request this license type for your account. Yahoo, which owns Flickr, released the data set which contained 100 million images for benchmarking purposes. To simply release the copyright of your images or declare them in the public domain, consider using the more flexible and widely used Public Domain or CC0 licenses instead of reconfiguring your account. Once your account is configured for either of these types, you can only upload images of that one type. We recommend using FlickrMail to get in touch with the owner of the photo.įlickr must set up the following license types especially for your account. Note: If you are wishing to use any content that appears on Flickr, you must first contact the account holder to obtain their permission before moving forward with using any of their imagery, as doing so without their permission could potentially constitute copyright infringement. You, the copyright holder, reserve all rights provided by copyright law, such as the right to make copies, distribute your work, perform your work, license, or otherwise exploit your work no rights are waived under this license. Visit the accompanying link to learn more about each type. īelow are the license types supported by Flickr. Adobe has no way of knowing whether the Creative Commons or other license information conveyed by Google, Flickr, 500px, Pixabay, the Noun Project.
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Next to the Ⓒ icon, select the arrow to open the drop-down menu.Updates to license types can be done exclusively on a desktop & can be updated as often as you’d like.
Our goal is to help you understand how to change your photo licenses and to understand the difference between each type. Licensing gives you control of how others can use your photos. When you take a photo, you are the rightful owner of the content.