There have been many stories over the past few years about copyright infringement on Flickr. To date most have been about individuals maliciously downloading the work of others to resell it as their own or companies using photographs commercially violating either the licensing restrictions of the photo or ignoring the need for a model release. What most remain unaware of is that Flickr fosters copyright infringement through their API. The most egregious part of this is that Flickr knows it. Even if done with out malice you can expect them to spin it that they do not foster copyright infringement through their API or, as you’ll later see, that they’re immune from being liable for improper use of their API because of their API terms of use.
6 months ago I realized that two applications leveraging Flickr’s API were ignoring photo licensing settings that every user configures in the “Privacy & Permissions” section of their “Your Account” page. Even now regardless of a photos designated licensing setting, whether Creative Commons or All Rights Reserved, these and other applications are publishing Flickr photos to 3rd party web sites and image files, high resolution if available, are being downloaded for reuse on personal computers. Worse still is that as recently as this weekend MyxerTones employed Flickr’s API inappropriately in effect making every Flickr photo available for sale as cell phone wallpaper for 2 days.
My first realization that there was a problem with how Flickr’s API was being managed was when I found a medium size version of my photo “Penny Harvest Rockefeller Center, New York” displayed on CoinNews.net in late December 2007 just after Christmas. I wrote the administrator of CoinNews.net immediately and found out that they were unaware of the copyright infringement. It was explained to me that they were just using a freely available plugin that enabled them to publish the photographic work of others from Flickr via specified tags. The blog plugin they were using, “FlickrRSS“, was pulling the most recent photos tagged with “penny harvest” whether designated as “All Rights Reserved” or not.
With in days of this discovery Dave Winer announced FlickrFan. FlickrFan creates a high resolution photo screensaver based on a user or a tag based Flickr RSS feed. Photos from the specified user(s) or tag(s) are downloaded from Flickr to a local computer without sensitivity to the copyright license chosen by the photographer. (See FlickrFan: A Heads-Up For License Conscious Flickr Photographers). I contacted Dave about this, but strangely he would only carry on a conversation through blog comments. He in essence refused my invitation to talk about how his application worked over the phone or via email. His comments created more questions than they answered. In the end it left me scratching my head as to who the responsible party is in such application development. Is Dave immune because he’s leveraging RSS feeds that pulls content in a set format determined by Flickr or is Dave responsible for constructing an application that properly factors in photo licensing information contained with in Flickr’s feeds and/or API?
To pursue the matter further I contacted Flickr in December via an email to their support team. My email went unanswered.
In early January I had the good fortune of taking part in a panel discussion, Media Web Meet Up III: The Producers, with Heather Champ who is the Community Manager at Flickr. I took the opportunity to let her know about this problem with either the Flickr API or how the API was being enforced. I was told that she’d get back to me as soon as possible. After a few polite email exchanges that spanned several months I never heard anything more from Heather on the matter.
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Then this weekend a Flickr contact (stargazer95050) let me know that my photo Out of the Gloom, which like all my photos has the “All Rights Reserved” license designation, was being sold as cell phone wall paper through MyxerTones.com. It turns out everyone’s Flickr photos were available for purchase through MyxerTones.com from July 3rd to July 5th, but Myxer disabled their Flickr integration after receiving numerous complaints. Myk Willis of Myxer addressed the growing chorus of concerned Flickr photographers aware of their Flickr integration gone wrong this past Saturday apologizing and explaining the situation from his perspective.
This latest incident is by far the most egregious, as the use of photographs from Flickr were being sold with out the consent of a single photographer, all while photo licensing terms were programmatically ignored. I’m glad to see that Myxer took the proper steps to disable their Flickr integration, but this is the latest example of Flickr playing with fire. On some varying level it is easy to point the finger at Myxer, Dave Winer (author of FlickrFan), Eightface (the company behind FlickrRSS) or any other developer/company for improperly using the Flickr API, but I would argue that responsibility ultimately lies with Flickr.
Flickr controls their API and they control who uses their API. They issue API keys and supposedly monitor who they give these keys to whether companies like Myxer, independent software developers like Dave Winer or blog plugin developers like Eightface. Flickr even goes so far as to provide Terms of Use for their API and the do their best to place responsibility of recognizing image licensing terms on the developers using the Flickr API.
Section 1a, sub-section ii
Comply with any requirements or restrictions imposed on usage of the photos by their respective owners. Remember, Flickr doesn’t own the images – Flickr users do. Although the Flickr APIs can be used to provide you with access to Flickr user photos, neither Flickr’s provision of the Flickr APIs to you nor your use of the Flickr APIs override the photo owners’ requirements and restrictions, which may include “all rights reserved” notices (attached to each photo by default when uploaded to Flickr), Creative Commons licenses or other terms and conditions that may be agreed upon between you and the owners. In ALL cases, you are solely responsible for making use of Flickr photos in compliance with the photo owners’ requirements or restrictions. If you use Flickr photos for a commercial purpose, the photos must be marked with a Creative Commons license that allows for such use, unless otherwise agreed upon between you and the owner. You can read more about this here: www.creativecommons.org or www.flickr.com/creativecommons.
So why blame Flickr? Regardless of Flickr’s terms with the developers utilizing their API I have an individual agreement, as every Flickr user does, with Flickr. That agreement states in section 9b of the Yahoo! Terms of Service…
With respect to photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service other than Yahoo! Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Service and will terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo! removes such Content from the Service.
Note the bold text “solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available”. This is a slippery slope for Flickr and Yahoo as I’m uploading photos on Flickr to share with friends and the Flickr community. No where have I authorized an all encompassing distribution of my photography to third parties. Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying Flickr should shut down their API. I employ services that use Flickr’s API all the time with out problem. I authorize Moo to print cards with my photos, I authorize that my Flickr feed be picked up by Twitter and I authorize the use of my web site photo gallery to pull photos from Flickr. In each of these examples I have authorized how my photography is used in line with my licensing terms “All Rights Reserved”.
In fact if you look at your Flickr Account page in the Privacy & Permissions section you’ll find that you can authorize who downloads, prints, blogs, and searches your photos from Flickr. In my case I have opted to:
- Let no one download my photography other than myself
- Let no one print my photos other than myself
- Make my photography available through public searches
- Make my photography available to be blogged.
In the examples I’ve provided counter to my Privacy & Permissions settings …
- Flickr RSS via the Flickr API has enabled others to blog my photography outside of the safeguards set in place through the “Blog This” button on each of my Flickr photo pages.
Note: Flickr RSS is often used to provide image thumbnails on blogs and I have no problem with this, but medium size photos enable a resolution of display that is too great less a photographers consent. - FlickrFan via the Flickr API and RSS feeds has enabled others to download my photography when I have explicitly stated that no one should be able to download my photographs.
- Mxyrtones/Myxer via the Flickr API has enabled a company to sell and make available downloads of my photography with out any authorization or agreement.
Taking myself and my communications with Flickr out of the equation… this is a known problem. Other application developers have become acutely aware of the problem of leveraging Flickr’s API while respecting the copyrights of photographers and the licensing terms they specify. As recently as March 2008 this very topic has been discussed in the Flickr API discussion forum (API usage and image copyright …).
When you read this previously noted thread you begin to enter the realm of finger pointing. Ask a photographer who they blame when their image is published inappropriately through a 3rd party application using Flickr’s API and they’ll blame the developer. Ask the developer in this situation and they’ll blame the photographer for making their photographs available. In fact most developers quite logically will state that photographers should turn off their Privacy & Permissions setting to make their photographs available through public searches. Unfortunately that only removes photographs from tag searches, but not searches across pools or sets. On the other hand the counter argument is, “Why should a photographer turn off the ability of their photographs to be searched because a developer isn’t capable of programming the proper logic to display photographs with the proper licensing restrictions?”
What both parties have missed to date is that Flickr is ultimately responsible to honor their agreement with individual photographers and to manage their API in such a fashion that the Privacy & Permissions settings specified by Flickr photographers are honored. I am personally disappointed that Heather Champ did not pursue looking into this in a more timely fashion. I have gone above and beyond in giving her an opportunity to address my concerns privately through several email correspondences and a personal conversation. Seven months is a lifetime in this day and age of blogging on the Internet. That being said I don’t let developers off the hook either when it comes to responsibility of releasing applications using Flickrs’ API. Although Flickr has ultimate responsibility in managing their API and subscribers, developers have the responsibility to understand the law and not break it. When a photographer uploads photographs to Flickr they’re not signing away their rights to their work for 3rd party developers to do what they will with them.
If you’re a photographer who uses Flickr I would encourage you not to wait 7 months as I have before publicly talking about this. The only way Flickr is going to address and/or fix this problem is by Flickr members letting them know this situation is unacceptable.
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By not opting out of public sharing you are indeed forfeiting the copyright you placed on the image. In fact if you try to uphold your copyright of an image.. then share it on flickr, then refuse to make it private.. then complain that somebody is using the stream in accordance with FlickR guidelines, I’m pretty sure the web provider (who uses the api in the manner intended eg: RSS feed with thumbnail only that links back to flickr for the full size image and displays the owner’s name prominently and links the name back to the owner’s flickr page and does not modifify the stream in any way, nor claim ownership nor sell the image), well, that person can go after the copyright holder with a fraud by deception case.. In other words, I would claim that the person who took the photo posted it on FlickR, refused to use the make private feature in the sole attempt to seek frivilous copyright claims.
Like I said, I don’t condone anything beyond the republishing of API XML, but I get constant “You are using my photo illegally” and after politely advising people to make their photos public, they threaten lawsuits. Read your terms of service before you complain. Your TOS says that your images will be distributed publicly unless you turn it off.
In fact, when people repub xml feeds, they are promoting your photos and your flickr profile free of charge. It’s a win-win situation for the photographer and the web publisher.
I just don’t see why you complain about that part. Again, don’t QQ to me about full size images or people claiming their own copyrights on your work. My complaint is with photographers’ gripes on fair and legal use of the API according to the Yahoo and FlickR terms of service.
Are you a lawyer?
The topic here wasn’t people using the API, but Flickr having the API such that its claims to preserve copyright if that is so indicated in ones’ personal settings, was a false claim.
@pds: There is no such legal term as “forfeiting a copyright claim.” There is such a term as “fair use”, but that’s not the issue here.
If you restored a classic Mustang, and were to show it off at a neighborhood car show…since you are sharing your work publicly, are you “forfeiting” your legal claim to ownership? No…of course not.
There is no legal precedent to make a claim that because someone publicly displayed a piece of art, that they forfeit any rights they had pertaining to it. Does that sound just to you?
Now, when you use the Flickr Service, the photos you upload are licensed for Flickr to use in their application. Any other use could be considered a copyright violation.
But I don’t care…steal my photos. I look forward to the day where copyright is nonexistent.
Art is different from other forms of “work.” I believe that the talent of “art” is a gift. You receive free, give free.
@Sean McGee.
What a load of old tosh! You are a) obviously not an artiste, talented or otherwise and b) don’t earn your living and put the food on the table for your family from your art.
Non artistic/talented people have taken what is not theirs to take for 100’s of years. This is why to this day anywhere in the world you can find very talented musicians, painters, dancers etc who are living in poverty. Why don’t you go and tell them that the talent they have been “Given Free” is not theirs to keep! Never mind that have been practising 8 hours a day to perfect the ‘free gift’.
You gotta be a Lawyer!
Regards
Mark – Wales UK
Just because I have an opinion about art, does not mean that I won’t capitalize on the fact that I can get paid for it.
I’m not a lawyer, but AM a classically trained pianist, a hit-and-miss amateur photographer.
I make my living as an ART director for 3 quarterly magazines in Texas.
My opinions, however, are just that…my opinions. What did I say? “I believe that the talent of “art†is a gift. You receive free, give free.” Notice that phrase, “I believe…” It doesn’t mean that’s an ideal for everyone…it means that that’s what I wish the world could be like. As long as it keeps paying the bills, I’m not going to change things. HOWEVER, if someone steals a photo or graphic of mine for their use, I have no problem with that. Just give a little credit my way and I’m fine with that.
And, yes, Art IS different from other forms of “work.” How? Usually, the person performing the art ENJOYS what they do. That’s not work…that’s living a dream.
It’s like Thomas Hawk was reading my mind this morning: http://thomashawk.com/2008/08/associazione-arte-sella-is-enemy-flickr.html
Key Quote: “Art, like music, wants to be free.”
Sean. If you were making your living as a pianist and someone recorded your concert, released it and made money from it, how would that make you feel? That’s how I feel when people do it with my work without asking. Do the magazines you work for allow people to re-publish the articles without permission, for free? Would the writers get upset if someone re-published an article they had written and attributed authorship to themselves rather than the creator? All these things have happened to me.
I agree, being creative is a gift, just like being good with numbers might also be a gift or having the aptitude to be a pilot. Do accountants and airline pilots have this philanthropic attitude to life that you believe is the way artists should conduct themselves? I think not.
My being good at photography is, whilst part gift, part investment too. After leaving the army, I spent three years at art college. Using film and paper was not cheap and I made a considerable investment in materials and equipment to turn my skills into something that could be a career for me. As it happened I ended up in the music business and then had my own design business for some years but now I am finally pursuing a career as a photographer.
I have to make a living. Despite copyright and IP having been conceived during pre-internet times and needing an update, some way needs to exist to make sure that people who create can also make a living from their skills.
The whole concept of creation and ownership may have changed with the increase in digital technology and the arrival of the internet. But the money-free, barter and share economy is fraught with difficulties, although I do use it where I can; designing and hosting a website for free for my Japanese teacher, for example.
I think you may have reading too much Tom Hawk, with his ‘my photos are like birds.. I let them go to be freely enjoyed’ bullshit. The man owns Zoomr so he has his own photographic business empire and taking photos for him seems only to be a numbers game: his mission seeming to be more one of trying to hit the 1,000,000 published photos mark than anything else. He has some interesting things to say but his opinions on ownership of photos and about giving them all away for free are only practical when you have money coming in from somewhere else, as also seems to be the situation with yourself: proper job, hobby of photography.
Photography is not my hobby. It’s my work. Just cos I happen to have a job that other people are envious of [being something I can enjoy as well] do you honestly believe that just because I have this gift, I should give it away?
Utter rubbish in my opinion. Everyone has gifts.
If your ‘art is free’ model is to be pursued, then everyone needs to join in. If my gift of being creative is something people should freely enjoy, then maybe the gift of being able to bake bread is something my local baker should share with me for free; the gift of being able to cook a superb meal is something my local restaurant should give me back for free… and so on, and so on.
Oh! I wish I could have said that!
Thanks Alfie, I couldn’t agree more.
Moreover Sean, your point about enjoying your work and working at the thing you love etc. I started playing drums with a passion at age 11-pre Elvis and R & R. I practised 3-5 hours a day, by age 14 I was working semi-pro, and 18 I was pro. I continued in this career until I was well into my 30’s and married with children. Let me tell you truthfully and honestly, that dream job ain’t such a dream when you are leaving your family to travel 1000,s of miles away and to be living there for three months, only to arrive back home for three days before flying off to another continent! This is the life, if you are a successful professional musician, the more time you spend with your family, the less money you are earning to support them. If you believe that earning a living from doing something you love is a dream, then you are more naive that I thought. What do you think Vincent Van Gogh would have said way back when, if you had said to him ” hey Vinnie you are one lucky sob man, wow painting for a living, that must be wonderful…hope the ear gets better soon!”
I don’t care one way or another about your ‘beliefs’ just don’t go around preaching your gospel according to Hawk BS to the rest of us.
I live in the real world and have done for 67 years. During that time I have had a number of successful careers (if you count earning a good living from your career as successful) which includes being a professional musician, being a marketing manager and clinician for an international company (CBS), running a successful management & training consultancy and, the occasional photographer. I learnt to love every one, because if you are working in a job that you don’t love, you will not be giving the best of yourself, to your employer or your customers, and it’s my experience that the people who find themselves in those so called ‘dead-end’ jobs are continually looking for a different job, and it is those people who say that the ‘pro’ is lucky to be doing something he/she loves!
Gift, schmift! you say you are classically trained pianist, if it was a ‘gift’ surely you could do it straight away, why did you have to spend all that money on training for?
I don’t know about that gift BS, all I know is that all the professional musicians who were so-called ‘gifted’ that I have worked with both in the UK, Europe and the States, were still practising daily when they well into the 60’s and occasionally 70’s,so they could maintain their skill level.
In the words of the late Mark McCormick when confronted by a young and hungry entrepreneur who said that he “admired Mark, but he had to agree that he had been lucky”. And McCormick’s reply was, “Yes you are right, I have been lucky, and you know something, the harder I work, the luckier I get”. Or put another way, yes I am gifted and the more I practise my profession, the more gifted I become.
Regards
Mark
You make some very valid points in your post, and as a Flickr user (Lynchburgvirginia). I have set my permissions the same as yours. As a pro member of Flickr, a service that I pay for, I would expect Flickr to provide protection for us against the illegal use of our photos.
And I agree that developers need to respect the all reserved rights. In any case, this looks like grounds for a joint action lawsuit.
Thanks for the post, and I may link to your post in a future article on my blog.
Sincerely
Bob Miller
@Mark & Alfie: The only reason I mentioned that I was a pianist and Art Director is because my credentials were called into question.
QUOTE: “You are a) obviously not an artiste, talented or otherwise and b) don’t earn your living and put the food on the table for your family from your art.”
Now, what do you think about this hypothetical situation? Say I believe something that you think is faulty, and person “B” tries to show their viewpoint on the matter to me. What would you think of me if I told them to eat sod, and that they have no right to be preaching their BS “gospel”? I’d be a pretty big douchebag, wouldn’t I? So, why say this: “I don’t care one way or another about your ‘beliefs’ just don’t go around preaching your gospel according to Hawk BS to the rest of us.” That’s a pretty closed-minded thing to say. A little respect, please. When was I disrespectful to anyone’s opinions? The only thing I offered was a differing point of view.
@Sean
Sean as far as I can see you are now getting down to conceptual semantics and I really don’t want to continue down that road.
My argument is simple and straightforward. You say QUOTE:Art is different from other forms of “work.†I believe that the talent of “art†is a gift. You receive free, give free.
It may well be your ‘belief’ and what I am putting to you is that your belief is incorrect! I am trying to explain to you that so called ‘gifted’ people have to work very hard to become recognised as a talented artiste. So, when the results of their work is put on display – wherever – does anyone have the right to say, ” hay I like what you have done I am going to take that and use it without any recompense to you because…well it’s art init? And art should be free man, and I am now going to bootleg the outcome of your art/talent and make some money. Thank you very much, keep it coming”.
Sorry Sean, all that ” music wants to free” is just not an argument, and people who are positions of employment such as yourself should not be preaching “art should be free” but standing up for the artistes, whose work you buy for your magazines, and assisting them to achieve a greater audience and wider acceptance.
Regards
Mark
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All Flickr users should do something to get yahoo/flickr answerable.
I don’t make a living taking photos of my granddaughter so it is people like me, I suppose, who will remain with Flickr. If, my living depended upon my photos I would legally enforce my copyrights. Someone mentioned “somehow” holding Flickr accountable. That is simple. Hire a copyright infringement attorney and go after them every time they use your material without your permission. If you cannot afford a copyright attorney then your work must not be as great as you think that it is and Flickr spreading it around the world might actually be a benefit to you.
Derek, I would like to think my work is pretty good and I shoot professionally but, contrary to what you say:
“If you cannot afford a copyright attorney then your work must not be as great as you think that it is and Flickr spreading it around the world might actually be a benefit to you.”
….Flickr was basically enbaling violations of my copyright almost every week. That’s expensive to chase even if one’s work is pulling in big money. Checked how much copyright lawyers earn recently?
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This is one more reason why I’ve always built my own galleries and will never use flickr. I don’t want to trust any of my images to someone else.
This is just ridiculous.
More and more every day I lose faith in the common being as I am stolen from or witness such acts.
I for one am moving my stuff to SMUG-Mug.
So stop complaining and build your own flash based website to show your work instead of throwing it on a social networking platform? Add a copyright or make them available to only Flickr users that you want to see them and are sure that won’t take them.
Something people have to realize is that most people are not educated on what is stealing and what is not, so if your photos end up on some forum because you added them with no added privacy pictures, these are people who probably don’t understand copyright infringement, and just like your work.
So if you don’t want your photos our there in an easy to steal setting how about putting them somewhere else, or adding some privacy settings.
Also it wouldn’t have been hard for the coin site to also pull, a refer link to where the picture actually came from. That is responsible webmastering. Always linking back.
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thanks so much for this info. I had no idea. Looks like i will either discontinue posting to flickr or all my photos will be private…friends only viewing.
Hey Jim:
Long time no talk… I was pleased to find this article. Very thorough, thanks for spending the time to write it.
I haven’t read all the comments, so this may have been mentioned already, but I find it interesting that flickr won’t provide an optional feature to automatically watermark images as you upload them… my impression is that they are well aware of what’s going on and want to keep it that way.
Manuel
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I understand your complaints as a former photographer and now stock agency owner (must be crazy these days!)I’ve seen images on flickr I’d like to purchase but many downloads don’t have a way of making contact. You lose and we lose a sale. Please make your contact available and we share any sales 50/50.
Ottmar Bierwagen — If you sign up on flickr, you can send any photographer an email. When viewing someone’s profile, there is an option to “Send Flickrmail”.
I agree with Mark Goodwin. I disagree with Sean McGee. I am a hobbyist photographer, a semi-pro photog and starving artist who had to get a daygig because art, music, photography, none of it is rewarded either commensurately or consistently. I agree that you have to learn to love your job, and I’ve succeeded at that no matter what the occupation is/was. The reason I have to work a less artistically rewarding job is because of attitudes like Sean’s. The stuff Sean was spouting was pure bovine scat. Many members of my family are authors, composers, photographers, cinematographers and the like. I am an inventor of new Anti-Piracy Technology with 30+ years in engineering – computers, audio, and video, analog and digital.
I am of the opinion that flickr actually doesn’t want to do anything about this issue, and as an engineer with 30+ years in technology and computing, I know it’d be a fairly simple matter to make this right if Flickr wanted to do so.
Good luck to all of you. Happy Holidays and a much better 2009.
Thanks for the article. Up until now I’ve always uploaded the highest resolution and largest sized photos to my flickr account. Looks like from now on I’ll have to save them as low quality jpegs not suitable for commercial use as well as add watermarks.
I agree that it would be very simple to add licensing as a condition for software programmers. Or even just require a rights reserved tag for photos unavailable for commercial use. In the same way the program pulls photos by tags it could eliminate potential photos by tags.
And to think they charge for a pro account and pay you nothing when they sell your content to third parties.
Hi Jim.
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your Flickr experience with all. After reading this post and the comments, I promptly deleted all of my images and my Flickr account. After notifying Flickr why I was terminating my account, of course.
I wish you continued success in the New Year.
Sincerely,
Liisa Roberts
While this is something that everyone should be aware, I would like to point out that Jim has not left flickr for it. He still has pro account and is posting new photographs on regular basis.
Thank you Juha for pointing that out. It was a personal choice on my end. Now I must connect with you and discuss hiking in Finland!
Thank you for taking time to respond.
Liisa~
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Very interesting string here regarding Flickr image usage rights. In noticing that the feedback went quiet nearly a year ago, does anyone have the latest status update on this issue? For the record, I have been a very active Flickr member for 5+ years. Cheers!
You’re still able to download [larger] image sizes via the API that image owners have chosen not to make available via via flickr’s GUI interface.
Thank you, Dave.
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Anyone can screen grab your photos. It takes a second and nothing can prevent it. It’s not just a Flickr issue. They have actually tried fairly hard to mitigate theft of photos. They are one of the few that has always given the option to disble right clicking, and while we know it’s fairly useless, it’s a symbolic gesture at least. The real problem is the blogs….like Tumblr. Their bookmarklet will blog anything.
flickr are bad news bud i`m experiencing some of the same things and dont want to upgrade to a pro acct so i cant get my photos off of there because of the size they compress them and not sure if i can resize my photos once i do them 1 by 1 and i have well over 11,000 so i can just imagine what they might have done with some of my photos?? let me know if you get a minute
thanks
dave
I, too, was shocked to see my images show up in the Getty collection and numerous other sites offering FREE downloads of quality images. I was told by another flickr member that they were actually contacted by Getty. I have been surfing the Internet to see if any of my work has been sold but it is more difficult than looking for a written work.
You’re still able to download [larger] image sizes via the API that image owners have chosen not to make available via via flickr’s GUI interface.
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