Google Images is making it easier to license photo rights
Google is rolling out an update to Google Images designed to make it easier to license photographs or pictures that are covered by copyright. The change could help publishers, photographers, and artists get in front of their audience, while also helping users find images that they have a right to use.
Images with licensing information provided by the publisher will now appear in search results with a "Licensable" badge over the thumbnail. Clicking on that image will then bring up its licensing requirements and a link to where you're able to buy rights to it, if necessary. Licensors are able to specify a purchasing link that differs from the page the image has been surfaced from.
It'll also be possible to filter image search results by the type of license attached. For example, you could search just for images covered under a less strict Creative Commons license, or look specifically for commercial photos.
Bye, Flickr.
Also at Search Engine Land.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @02:08AM
It was Hollywood and the big guy that lobbied for copy protection laws to be opt in and that kept on lobbying for their expansion and extension and one sided penalty structure. They didn't consult the little guy. It was done undemocratically not by the little guy but by the big guy (ie: Disney).
IP laws are not about protecting the little guy. They are about protecting the big guy. and the big guy should be ashamed of himself for trying to use the little guy as an excuse to push the interests of big corporations. But of course big corporations have absolutely zero shame.
To claim otherwise is to ignore the history of who kept on lobbying for the one sided nature of IP laws. Or it's to be intentionally misleading and deceptive and dishonest (which is most likely the case). IP laws are what they are because big corporations want them this way.