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100 Million CC-Licensed Images on Flickr
There are over 100 million photos available on Flickr which have been licensed with Creative Commons licenses and Michelle Thorne has published an analysis of them on the Creative Commons blog. Here are a few of her findings:
- 33% of them are equipped with the most restrictive CC License, BY-NC-ND. That means that over 32 million photos are available to download, display publicly, and distribute, as long as the author is attributed and no changes are made to the original image.
- The second most frequent license is BY-NC-SA. It allows derivative works for non-commercial purposes as long as those resulting works are made available under the same license. 29%, or 29 million images, can be used in this manner.
- 76% of all photos bar commercial use. At the same time, it means that 24%, or 24 million photos, do allow for commercial use with minimal restrictions.
- Over 12 millions photos are completely free to use, as long as the author of the image is attributed.
- Approximately 63 million of all available image files allow for derivative works.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Tony Tallent and I have also established a Free Use group on Flickr where photographers can designate their photos as “Free Use” with no restriction, no attribution, no permission needed to use. If you are a Flickr user please join our group and consider sharing some of your photos.
If you are looking for great photos for presentations or anything else take a look at the great things people are sharing: http://www.flickr.com/groups/freeuse/
April 27th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Have recently found http://www.morguefile.com an awesome resource for royalty fre, attribution free pictures, documents etc. All in high quality with an excellent search function