Flickr adds support for public domain photos
When you stick a photo online, how can you make it clear that you are happy for anyone to use it however the heck they want? By adding support for the Public Domain and Creative Commons 0 designations, Flickr just made things a whole lot easier.
The site has long been home to a raft of images made available under Creative Commons licenses, but now options have been expanded further. If you're happy to forego the copyright you have to your picture, Flickr now lets you become a photographic philanthropist.
It's something that Flickr hopes lots of users will take advantage of. Launching support for the new image designations, it reveals that SpaceX has made score of its photographs available for free for anyone to use, edit, and basically do whatever they want with. You can do the same if you feel so inclined.
Announcing the new categories, Flickr product manager Rajiv Vaidyanathan says:
The default setting on Flickr continues to be All Rights Reserved, but you can change the default for all your photos in your account settings if you’re interested in using Public Domain or CC0. You can also set the designation per individual photo in a variety of Flickr desktop and mobile experiences, such as the Photo Page, Camera Roll, Organizr, Uploadr, etc.
We know these changes will provide more choice for our community and we’re happy to support them on Flickr.
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