Most pornography is in the pubic domain.
Ask HN: Where can I find pornography that is in the public domain?
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Re: Ask HN: Where can I find pornography that is in the public domain?
#22Where the CC-BY (lots on Flickr) or Unsplash license is really not sufficient?
Yeah, I've been using Flickr for my project but I was just curious if something else in the public domain existed. Also, does Unsplash accept pornography? I couldn't really find anything on there.
Sorry, I misread as “photography” in general.
Re: Ask HN: Where can I find pornography that is in the public domain?
#23If people post their own pictures without a copyright notice, are they by default in the public domain? There are plenty of places people post porn. A friend told me see reddit.com/r/ . Just google it. Unlike many other places, in gone wild at least people are generally posting their own stuff. It's kind of an amazing concept, that there are apparently hundreds of thousands of people over time that are willing to pos…
Anything published without a copyright notice still has a copyright.
> Until March 1, 1989, a published work had to contain a valid copyright notice to receive protection under the copyright laws. But this requirement is no longer in force — works first published after March 1, 1989, need not include a copyright notice to gain protection under the law.
https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/faqs/copyright-protect...
Re: Ask HN: Where can I find pornography that is in the public domain?
#24If people post their own pictures without a copyright notice, are they by default in the public domain? There are plenty of places people post porn. A friend told me see reddit.com/r/ . Just google it. Unlike many other places, in gone wild at least people are generally posting their own stuff. It's kind of an amazing concept, that there are apparently hundreds of thousands of people over time that are willing to pos…
> If people post their own pictures without a copyright notice, are they by default in the public domain? No.
Interesting... In that situation how is the licence determined? According to the platform policy?