Are Flickr images royalty free?
No photos on flickr (except maybe those in Commons) are copyright-free. At best there are those that are licensed CC-BY.
Are Flickr photos Creative Commons?
Flickr is a good source of photographs that have been licensed under Creative Commons. Images licensed under Creative Commons are still subject to copyright, but the creator or copyright owner has chosen to allow other people to use their material under certain conditions.
Are images with Creative Commons license free to use?
CC offers its licenses, code, and tools to the public free of charge, without obligation. You do not need to register with Creative Commons to apply a CC license to your material; it is legally valid as soon as you apply it to any material you have the legal right to license.
Can I use an image from Flickr?
You can only use photographs from Flickr which carry a Creative Commons License. There are various licenses, each with their own particular permissions and conditions.
Is Flickr under CC license?
Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.
Can you sell Creative Commons?
What is Creative Commons? As the copyright owner in your work, you can sell or license it to others, which could be done through a contractual agreement.
What does share alike mean for using Creative Commons?
This is as close as the Creative Commons concept gets to the idealistic fiction of ‘information wanting to be free’, but it does serve a useful purpose in ensuring that those who use licensed work make public contributions as well.
Can you get a Creative Commons license on Flickr?
Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.
What are the effects of the ShareAlike license?
The ShareAlike license has several intended effects: The original work always remains freely available to use and remix. Adaptations of the work are always freely available to use and remix. The ShareAlike licenses are designed to result in the creation of new works for the commons through their copyleft mechanism.
Can a ShareAlike photo be used in a larger work?
ShareAlike photo being used unmodified in a larger work. Unless the larger work would be considered an adaptation of it, using a ShareAlike photo as a separate element within it does not require original materials in the larger work to be ShareAlike or compatible. The larger work may be licensed under any terms.