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Cool kids moved from flickr to unsplash

• cycomanic 5y ago
  >Unsplash grants you an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash. This license does not include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service. In other words Unsplash is a creative work donation site. I think this is a very different value proposition than flickr or smugmug. Somewhere else on unsplash it says: >Unsplash has quickly become the internet’s source of visuals—powering everything from Apple keynotes to high school Art projects. By contributing your images, you are pushing creativity forward every day. So it's a website that companies like Apple don't have to pay license fees for images anymore?
  • FireBeyond 5y ago
    Well, a credit "would be appreciated", so they're - maybe - paying in that most valued of currencies, the "exposure buck".
  • fleddr 5y ago
    "This license does not include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service." This last line is funny, as they only added it later. They have all this fluffy language about how awesome and humanitarian it is when photos are free of rights or restrictions. Except of course when this freedom is used in a way they don't like.