Splashing Around With Licenses
Jun 29, 2017
Alan Levine tells the story about photo licensing disputes better than anyone I know. In this case it's a spat between Unsplash, a free photo sharing site, and Creative Commons. Unsplash decided to cease use of the CC0 designation (Creative Commons Zero, not a license, but an attempt to place works in the public domain) because commercial services were using robots to download the photos and set them up on competing servers with advertisements and such. So they created their own license to clarify that this use isn't intended, and modified their API terms to prohibit the practice. The Creative Commons response gets a couple of things wrong (I see no sign that it's an attempt to create an Unsplash branded license, and API terms are a different thing from image licenses).
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