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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @02:14AM
Also, IP laws should not be about preventing 'theft'. Infringement is not theft. To the extent that IP laws should exist it should only exist to promote the progress of the sciences and useful arts and to serve a public interest.
and the constitution does not give congress an obligation to pass IP laws. It gives them the right/ability but not the obligation. If Congress chose to completely abolish IP laws it would not be against the constitution because the constitution does not require congress to grant such monopolies. To claim otherwise either shows you don't know how to read or (more likely) you are being intentionally dishonest (which is to be expected coming from those that push for stronger and stronger IP laws. Absolutely no surprise there, I expect the same lies to be repeated over and over and over).
To the extent that IP laws are pushed for the purpose of 'protecting the little guy' then IP laws should absolutely be abolished completely. Like any other laws that exist IP laws should only be about promoting the public interest.