500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under Creative Commons

guest · Jul 1, 2018

500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under Creative Commons
The photo-sharing site is also closing down 500px Marketplace, its stock photo platform
July 1, 2018
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/1/1...es-visual-china-group-photography-open-access

Photography platform 500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under a Creative Commons license, and is removing the functionality to search and download such images. The site also closed down its stock photo platform, 500px Marketplace yesterday, replacing it with distribution partnerships with Getty Images and Visual China Group

So, 500px, which positioned itself as a Flickr alternative, has announced they're deleting/removing access to all Creative Commons photos on their site. Like, tomorrow. https://t.co/C0oI3joeVW NO warning.
— Jason Scott (@textfiles) June 29, 2018

But the changes have concerned open-internet activists and online archivists, who say that access to freely-available images is important to the larger internet community.

Scott isn’t the only critic of the company’s change in strategy: 500px’s founder, Evgeny Tchebotarev (who left the company in 2016), tweeted that “Creative Commons is critical to the growth and support of the open web,” and that the company’s decisions in recent years have perplexed him greatly.
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