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500px just ditched Creative Commons with one day's notice

Post Sat Jun 30, 2018 3:13 pm


500px, a photo-sharing community that's been transforming into an image-licensing business, has backed away from a framework that let people freely share their photos with others.

On an FAQ website, the company said it's disabling the ability for people to upload or download photos shared under Creative Commons licenses. That framework lets people share images without many of the usual restrictions of copyright licensing, which is why Creative Commons licenses are so useful for sites like Wikipedia that rely on free contributions.

Some are distressed to hear about the Creative Commons cutoff.

"It's over 1 million CC-licensed photos. Gone. Tomorrow," tweeted Jason Scott, who works on the Internet Archive, a repository that catalogs Creative Commons and public-domain images. "No warning," he added in his Thursday tweets, saying there's not enough time for the archive to make copies.


Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/500px-photo-site-abandons-freely-shareable-images-with-commercialization-push/

As much as I might personally lament Pbase's indifferent management, they've always been there, and they don't pull Valley Startup crap like this.

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