Yahoo Brings CC Filters to Image Search
On May 26th, 2009, on Yahoo’s Search Blog, Polly Ng and Anuj Sahai announced the addition of CC license image filtering options to their image search and also explained why CC licenses are so important for finding images online.
Finding a great image online elicits a little thrill, but it can be tricky – if you’re looking for a pic to pop into a presentation or illustrate a Web page, you need to know if you’re allowed to use that photo, and how you can use it. Today, Yahoo! Image Search is launching a Creative Commons license filter that allows you to simply and quickly find images that are available for reuse.
When you use Yahoo! Image Search, you’ll now see a checkbox for Creative Commons allowing you to filter for images from Flickr that can be used commercially or that can be modified (remixed, tweaked, or built upon) with restrictions set by the image’s creator.
Congrats to the Yahoo! team for extending CC even further into their platform!
Forgive me, but a picture (screen shot) is worth a thousand words (searches):
Tags: ccREL, Copyleft and copyright, Creative Commons community, Free knowledge, Frontiere digitali, Illustration, Photography
July/07/2009 at 13:20
This is going to be of great assistance to a great number of people, I hope the service is well advertised so that as many people as possible will get the benefit from the service. Being able to use legitimate images and knowing easily that they are is I have to say cool!
Thanks for letting us know.
Rgds
Michiel