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Flickr Will Save All Creative Commons Photos, Deceased Members' Accounts
Flickr will begin deleting photos of accounts over the 1,000 file limit starting on March 12th, but the photo-sharing service has just announced two changes to its policy: spared from deletion will be all Creative Commons photos and the accounts of deceased members.
When Flickr announced its Free account changes back in late 2018, it stated that freely licensed public photos (e.g. Creative Commons, public domain, U.S. government works) uploaded on or before November 1st, 2018, would be spared from the mass deletion.
But Flickr is now going a step further by promising that future Creative Commons photos will be protected as well.
"Creative Commons licenses have been an important part of Flickr since we introduced them on our platform in 2004," Flickr says. "We wanted to make sure we didn't disrupt the hundreds of millions of stories across the global internet that link to freely licensed Flickr images. We know the cost of storing and serving these images is vastly outweighed by the value they represent to the world. In this spirit, today we're going further and now protecting all public, freely licensed images on Flickr, regardless of the date they were uploaded. We want to make sure we preserve these works and further the value of the licenses for our community and for anyone who might benefit from them."
Previously: Flickr to Stop Giving Terabyte of Photo Storage to Free Users
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday March 11 2019, @03:31PM
This was 2015, my 2nd. Campaign. Also known as my 1st. "real" Campaign. And I had a young kid doing my Tweets. College kid, great kid we were teaching to Tweet. Also known as an intern. And the kid sees, iStock. Sounds like iPhone, sounds legit, right? And they put the picture of brave soldiers in beautiful uniforms. You pay them money, you get the picture. The permission to use the picture. Sounds great, right?
Well, it wasn't great. Because they weren't real soldiers, they were play acting. And the uniforms were also a problem -- Nazi. These guys are prancing around, they look like brave soliders, they look like Nazi soldiers. They're not brave, they're not soldiers, they're not Nazi. But, iStock doesn't tell you that. They don't tell you any of that. All they say is, Soldaten Marschieren. Who knows what that is, right? We didn't know, how would we know that one. But oh, the critics! Let me tell you, the critics were all over that one. They knew. Somehow, they knew. They said, "oh look, Donald J. Trump tweeted a phoney pic, now he'll never be president!" And we ended up erasing that Tweet. From both Twitter & Facebook. They say that on Facebook you can't really erase anything. You push Back Space, sorry, too late. We erased as much as we could. And I said, get that money back, get a goddamned refund from iStock for that one. We didn't get the refund. And we're looking into suing them over that one.
Creative Commons, there's nobody to sue. And the so-called product, so many times, that's a product you don't want. But look what happened with iStock. They sold us a Fake picture. It wasn't a Fake picture, it was a real picture. Of Fake soldiers. Fake Nazi soldiers. They didn't tell us it was Fake, our intern couldn't tell. And we paid for it thinking that one was real. Big hassle in getting that money back. Beautiful thing about Creative Commons, many times it's free. We love free! Same terrible product, at least it's not costing us. My campaign, the Taxpayers or anybody else. Creative Commons all the way!!!!