"This is not one of those tech acquisitions where the company is bought to be shut down. Unsplash will continue to operate as a standalone brand and division of Getty Images." Sweet summer child
Narrator: it was.
Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
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Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
> hunting for sites using photos without or with not 100% correct attribution I do not see what is wrong about this part (other than the illegal(?) nexus with lawyers). CC licences still have to be complied with (or the user can contact the copyright holder for an alternative licence). GPL infringers have been taken to court as well, and a legal, for-profit litigation initiative might be a good incentive that encoura…
Those guys were only publishing under the CC license to make a profit (by lawyer/court). I think thats wrong to abuse the CC license for profit this way. Another detail of that scheme: Wikipedia actually does not do (correct) attribution on their site (no attribution next to the images. So if you mirror/copy Wikipedia content, in germany you will be sued by "photographers" who won't enforce their attribution on wikip…
If you have JavaScript enabled, attribution is displayed when you view the full-size image.
If you don't have JavaScript enabled, it's still displayed when you view the full-size image, but it loads a different page to do so.
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's the worst community for monetising that in any way. That sounds fantastic, I'll take a look! Edit: It's not CC0 though, right? The Pexels License looks similar to the Unsplash License.
(Disclosure: I work for Canva) You are allowed to do anything with Pexels photos, except 4 conditions listed on the plain English licensing page: https://www.pexels.com/license/ In short, • don’t portray identifiable people in a bad way • don’t sell unaltered, make a change first • don’t imply endorsement • don’t redistribute on other sites. Commercial use is perfectly fine. You don’t need to attribute, but our photo…
Actual answer for GP: no, it's not CC0.
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#194My main association with Getty is their 'copyfraud' practises where they claim public domain images (NASA, Library of Congress etc) as their own and sell licenses[0]. They're also well known for aggressive acquisitions[1]. Perhaps this a good time to create a mirror [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_Images#Claiming_copyrigh... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_Images#Acquisitions
> Perhaps this a good time to create a mirror
Creating a mirror is forbidden by Unsplash's license.
I wonder if there are any actually CC0/Public Domain image sites left anymore?
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#195If you want to create a free public resource do it, if you want to create a for profit business, by all means do that too. But for the love of all that's holy please stop trying to pretend you're making a free public resource and then backdooring in some crappy business model or exit strategy.
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
What makes you think they believe it?
For example, I honestly believe the Oculus founder believed the promises that you wouldn't ever need to use a FB account to use an Oculus, just given his public comments.
You can't use Oculus products now without a Facebook account?
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#197> Unsplash will continue to operate as a standalone brand and division of Getty Images. The entire Unsplash team will be staying and building Unsplash in the direction we have been. The main difference now is we have access to the resources and experience of Getty Images to help accelerate our plans to create the world’s most useful visual asset library. Sounds so familiar. How many times have we heard this one? How…
Almost never.
The current exception nowadays seems to be Microsoft. Minecraft, npm, github seem to be doing good, and keeping their core values and strengths.
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Based on this behavior, my paranoid side is expecting a wave of copyright notices and invoices being sent to every single site that is using Unsplash images right now.
Hopefully they won't be able to revoke rights already given...
They can't, but they can attempt copyfraud as they seem to already be doing, see the aforementioned wiki article and public domain NASA/LoC images.
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
> hunting for sites using photos without or with not 100% correct attribution I do not see what is wrong about this part (other than the illegal(?) nexus with lawyers). CC licences still have to be complied with (or the user can contact the copyright holder for an alternative licence). GPL infringers have been taken to court as well, and a legal, for-profit litigation initiative might be a good incentive that encoura…
Those guys were only publishing under the CC license to make a profit (by lawyer/court). I think thats wrong to abuse the CC license for profit this way. Another detail of that scheme: Wikipedia actually does not do (correct) attribution on their site (no attribution next to the images. So if you mirror/copy Wikipedia content, in germany you will be sued by "photographers" who won't enforce their attribution on wikip…
> Wikipedia actually does not do (correct) attribution on their site (no attribution next to the images.
More recent versions like CC-BY-SA 4.0[1] explicitly say that it may be reasonable to attribute via a hyperlink.
Older licence versions do not have this line, but even then, it could be argued that Wikipedia itself is not infringing because attribution is still provided as part of the same work (considering the whole of the German Wikipedia as the work), rather than on an external site.
Unless German courts have already ruled that attribution has to be next to the image?
1. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode#s3a...
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#200Potentially unpopular opinion: Good. I am tired of people just putting large images into their websites where the main image is barely relevant to the rest of the page. It was sloppy and lazy, like modern day clip art. And if someone really wants images, there are paid services like envato that are at least somewhat sustainable. These solutions are really affordable now and they've got very decent licensing terms.
You prefer walls of text, with nothing else?
Invert the scenario: imagine a blog post with photos by the author, but text pasted in from Wikipedia just to space the photos out a bit.
It's essentially the same thing.