Whether maintaining a blog or a beloved long-running website , you will have likely run into problems with accidentally using copyrighted images. It’s easy enough to do, there’s so much misinformation around fair-usage from country-to-country that it’s easy to assume you’ll be safe, but still end up with a huge invoice from Getty Images. If you have fully paid-up access to an image provider or stock image library, then fantastic.
Whether maintaining a blog or a beloved long-running website , you will have likely run into problems with accidentally using copyrighted images. It’s easy enough to do, there’s so much misinformation around fair-usage from country-to-country that it’s easy to assume you’ll be safe, but still end up with a huge invoice from Getty Images.
Flickr has quietly rolled out a change to its search interface that makes it a lot easier to find images that are licensed through Creative Commons. There’s a new “License” dropdown menu that shows at the top of the search results page, as shown above