Creative Commons just launched CC Search, a search engine for CC images that has been in beta testing for years as it was being developed and polished. It’s a portal to over 300 million CC images from 19 different collections.
The newly launched search features a major redesign and a search system that’s both faster […]. petapixel.com
A screenshot of illustrated portraits shared on IBM's Diversity in Faces dataset website. Earlier this week, Flickr started taking heat across the web after it was specifically mentioned in a report from NBC News that took a deep dive into the 'dirty little secret' of using Creative Commons images to help train facial recognition algorithms. dpreview.com »
2019-03-16 03:22
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. petapixel.com »
2019-03-09 21:02
500px just shut down its Marketplace stock photo platform in favor of selling photos directly through Getty Images and VCG, as the company announced a month ago. And as part of the major change, 500px has wiped out over 1 million of the Creative Commons photos photographers had uploaded to the service. Creative Commons licensing […] petapixel.com »
2018-07-02 17:45
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a new searchable map for Instagram where users can discover nearby local businesses.
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Google today launched new features in Google Images “to help people use images on the web responsibly. ” The features should benefit photographers, as they help people both identify photos that can be licensed as well as find out how to properly license them.
Google Images is continuing to make changes that benefit photographers. The image search engine is testing a new “Licensable” badge that aims to help photographers sell their photos through search results.
PimEyes is a Polish search engine that’s raising some eyebrows over its privacy implications. Powered by facial recognition technology, the service takes any portrait of a person and finds other photos of that person on the Web.
Google is taking another big step in protecting photographers’ copyright through the Google Images image search engine: it just added image rights metadata to the photo search results on Google Images.