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> How could I, a nobody, 'donate' my photography to public domain? An organization wouldn't give a hoot about me, so are there sites that can 'take' photos and
by hannob 4y ago
> How could I, a nobody, 'donate' my photography to public domain? An organization wouldn't give a hoot about me, so are there sites that can 'take' photos and host them as public domain?
Wikimedia Commons, upload them with CC0 as the license. (CC0 is basically public domain, just with some legal language that makes it work in other countries than the US where public domain as a legal concept does not exist.)
- detaro 4y agoor archive.org I forget what the current terms are, but Flickr also had tons of public domain/CC0/CC-licensed images and didnt count them against quota afaik
- porphyra 4y agoCC0 is nice but why not CC 4.0 license? It still lets people use it for commercial use but has attribution. That way people can't sell the photo and claim it as their own, for example.
- culi 4y agoI think you mean CC BY 4.0. There's CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC-BY-NC, or other combinations of below: BY: attribution SA: share-alike NC: non-commercial ND: no derivatives The "0" in CC0 just means no rights reserved. "4.0" is just the latest version of the legal code. There was a CC BY 3.0 and a CC BY 2.0, etc.
- porphyra 4y agoOh yes, you're right. I think the most common one on Wikimedia Commons is CC BY-SA 4.0.