SpaceX, the commercial Space company founded by Elon Musk has created an account on Flickr and published over 100 pictures under a Creative Commons licence. In so doing they are apparently following NASA’s lead which has traditionally made photographs available in the public domain. Motherboard reports that SpaceX originally used an Attribution-NonCommercial licence but later […]
The British Library has just uploaded a million images to Flickr, and they’re all copyright-free! The images come from books held by the library dating from the 17th, 18th and 18th century which have been digitised by Microsoft. The Library hopes to “stimulate and support research concerning printed illustrations” and plans to launch a crowdsourcing […]
![[Ellen Terry at Age Sixteen]; Julia Margaret Cameron, British, born India, 1815 - 1879; Freshwater, England, Europe; negative 1864; print about 1875; Carbon print; Image: 24.3 x 24.3 cm (9 9/16 x 9 9/16 in.), Mount: 32.1 x 32.1 cm (12 5/8 x 12 5/8 in.); 86.XM.636.1](https://technology.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ellen-terry-young-girl-jpeg-140x140.jpg "Explore The Getty Museum’s Digital Photos For Free")
The J. Paul Getty Museum recently announced that they were lifting restrictions on some parts of their image collection: the Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds all the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose This is even more open […]
