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Welcome to the Flickr Commons. Since launching in 2008 with the Library of Congress, the Flickr Commons has been sharing hidden treasures from the world’s photography archives, with over 100 members. Learn more
The Flickr Commons is a special program that lives on flickr.com. It’s designed to support cultural organizations in sharing their photography collections with the public, and to help them gather new information added by interested Flickr members. The main benefits of Flickr Commons are:
Under "The Commons," cultural institutions that have reasonably concluded that a photograph is free of copyright restrictions are invited to share such photograph under their new usage guideline called "no known copyright restrictions." ... you agree to the use of cookies by Flickr and our partners as described in our cookie policy.
Jan 17, 2024 · This Flickr Commons explorer is brought to you by the nonprofit Flickr Foundation. Our mission is to keep Flickr pictures visible for 100 years (including these ones). Find out more about us at
“The Commons on Flickr” launched in 2008 with the Library of Congress (LOC) as its first partner. Since then, the Flickr Commons has grown into a unique collection of historical photography, with over 100 cultural institutions in 24 countries around the world participating. The program is now managed by the Flickr Foundation. Program objectives
Nov 7, 2018 · The Commons: The Past Is 100% Part of Our Future. November 7, 2018. On November 1, 2018, we announced how we’d begin bringing Flickr back to its roots: an active, photo-sharing community. This meant upgrading our Pro accounts and changing Free accounts to encourage photographers to use Flickr again for interaction and inspiration and not just ...
The Commons is a feature of Flickr that permits various institutions to submit collections of photographs to Flickr subject to the terms below. Most notably, institutions that submit photos to Flickr must do so only after representing to Yahoo! that the photos are not associated with any known copyright restrictions that prevent an institution ...
The groundbreaking Flickr Commons program will be sustained and supported by the Foundation. Our work will prioritise supporting smaller cultural organisations with tools, practice, and community to develop deeper public engagement with their photography collections. We will: Support exchanging ideas, toys, and software about the Flickr archive
About Flickr Commons. The Flickr Commons was launched on January 16, 2008 with The Library of Congress as its first member. Since then, it has grown to a cohort of 100 international cultural heritage organizations from the very large to the very small. The program has four main objectives:
We’re pleased to share with you a first look at our new Commons Explorer, available at commons.flickr.org. We’ve built the explorer using the standard Flickr API, and have created a secondary database which is updated pretty regularly.
