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carriebarnett
16,732 PointsFlickr - Understanding how and when you can use images from their site on your webpage - Need some guidance
Can anyone point me in the right direction with understanding when it is okay to use images from flikr on your webpage....? Our API project uses the live feed which got me thinking.
Then I was looking here on this page seeing if there were images I might be able to use for another project: https://www.flickr.com/people/free_for_commercial_use/ and it states that you can use the images in the photostream as long as you give the photographer credit in a specific way, but then as you scroll down there is a section that says edit... and that it has been changed to All Rights Reserved. I'm confused. I certainly don't want to do something that takes advantage of any artist or photographer, but obviously in some circumstances it is okay? Just need some guidance here.
2 Answers
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,863 PointsI'm not that familiar with Flickr, but as I understand it, it is a photo sharing site. All photos, will be copyright by the person who took the photo. So, it will be up to the person who took the photo as to whether or not his/her photo may be used. Just quickly going through the site, all the photos I pulled up are copyright with no permissions for use.
Like anything, however, you could always contact the copyright holder to see if he/she would be willing to grant a licence to use.
I'm not sure which course you are talking about for the API / live feed use, but that may have been something that falls under 'fair use', which is very different than just using a picture on a site. Copyright law is very complex and complicated, but the general rule is that ... if it doesn't say explicitly that you CAN use it -- don't use it.
If you want to learn more, Treehouse has a great Copyright Basics course.
Hope that helps some.
carriebarnett
16,732 PointsThank you so much! I will check out the Copyright basics course. This will be a great starting point.