The open licensing world is being roiled by defections from Creative Commons by image library services Unsplash and Pixabay. Instead of using CC0 (which is as near to 'public domain' as Creative Commons can get) they are now using their own licenses. At the centre of the dispute is the commercial republication of the images: "sites like Pixabay take images from Unsplash (and others), post to their site as if they were theirs AND use the platform to funnel users to buy their premium (Shutterstock) images." Similarly, "Getty has been accused of selling images in the public domain before." The new licenses, like Pixabay's, tell users, "Don't sell unaltered copies of an image. e.g. sell an exact copy of a stock photo as a poster, print or on a physical product."
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