Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

Post by reaperducer » Sun, Apr 26, 2026, 2:19 PM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #108

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Is this true? Yes, it is. I'm a previous career, I was a professional photographer. I spent a lot of time chasing after companies that operated with the "if it's in the internet, it must be free" mindset. The right letters, sent the right way, to the right people almost always gets things fixed. In one example, a very major bank used one of my photos as the cover of a corporate report. That mistake paid my rent for a…

Most major corporations are not stupid enough to do that though, and if they do, their lawyers will tell them to just settle and the responsible person (or a scapegoat) will quietly move on. Far more likely it's some random blogger or low-rent publication grabbing stuff off the Internet.

Post by sgerenser » Sun, Apr 26, 2026, 2:29 PM UTC

satvikpendem wrote: post #37

No mention of Picasa?

Post by satvikpendem » Sun, Apr 26, 2026, 2:36 PM UTC

johannes1234321 wrote: post #107

satvikpendem wrote: post #36

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I agree. Back in the day hackers were for the free enablement and usage of all data, code and media included. Now it seems everyone has turned into copyright hawks which ironically only entrench big players via regulatory capture so say goodbye to actual open source AI models, they're too poor to license content while big tech companies can.

The mantra, at least in German hacker scene, is: "use public data, protect private data" Published data is somewhere in the middle. But open source movement was always around copyright. FSF uses Copyright in Form of "copyleft" GPL for their agenda as does more business focussed open source movement. They are all purposely not using "public domain" Yes, there is also the pirating scene, "opening" up works and pushing…

Post by onethumb » Sun, Apr 26, 2026, 2:38 PM UTC

Nrbelex wrote: post #105

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I'm too big of a nerd to let the RSS feeds, open APIs, etc go. :) Alas, Flickr wouldn't even be alive if we hadn't increased the price ($$) and value (features) of Pro relative to things like intrusive ads on free accounts, etc. The very reason it's alive is because we have intrusive ads on free accounts, but no ads on Pro accounts, including for viewers. I don't expect that to change anytime soon. We have some great…

I actually think we agree that the value proposition is currently there for pro, per what I laid out in the piece (though of course I look forward to things that will further increase its value). My comment was supposed to make clear that adding more ads to Pro could undermine that value—but it sounds like that's not the plan, which is great.

Post by johannes1234321 » Sun, Apr 26, 2026, 3:16 PM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #109

johannes1234321 wrote: post #107

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The mantra, at least in German hacker scene, is: "use public data, protect private data" Published data is somewhere in the middle. But open source movement was always around copyright. FSF uses Copyright in Form of "copyleft" GPL for their agenda as does more business focussed open source movement. They are all purposely not using "public domain" Yes, there is also the pirating scene, "opening" up works and pushing…

There are also potential legal issues with public domain, especially in Europe where some rights can't always be disclaimed. There are OSI open source public domain licenses like the MIT-0 license.