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Google Finally Adds Creative Commons To Image Search
TechCrunch —
... As a blogger, I search Flickr and other photo sites for Creative Commons commercial licensed content on a daily basis. I like Google’s image search feature but the ability to search Creative Commons and other licensed content was a missing. Today, Google is launching the ability to create and advanced search for images that you can use for free and that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons. Searches will also include images and art that have been tagged with other licenses, like GNU Free Documentation license, or are in the public domain. ...
Find Creative Commons Licensed Images using Google Image Search
Redmond Pie —
An excellent new feature has been added today to Google Image Search!
The feature filters your Image Search results to the ones with licenses. This makes it easier and faster to get licensed images from the web. The main advantage is that one has no fear of using pictures without permission or with unaffordable licensing fees. In short, it makes the task of finding images – that can be used for free and without any disrespect to the will of artists and creators – simpler.
Image Search also helps artists who want ...
Google image search gets usage rights filtering
Webware.com —
... In an effort to keep people from incorrectly reusing, or repurposing images found on its image search tool, Google has added new options that let users filter results by usage rights. Users can now filter photos by whether they're available for reuse, commercial reuse, reuse with modification, or commercial use with modification. ...
Google introduces license-filtering image search
TechSpot —
... From music and videos to books, pictures and more, all content is likely to have some artist behind it who may or may not be willing to share. Unfortunately, it's not always easy to determine if something is legal to use on your own. Google understands this, and as of today has launched a new feature aimed at making finding completely free content a bit easier. Expanding their image search feature, the company is adding the ability to filter results to show only images that have certain licenses attached , such as Creative Commons, trivializing the process of finding content ...
Google Image Search Now Features License Filter
Search Engine Journal —
... According to the Official Google Blog, while this maybe a safer way of finding reusable images, users must still be cautious when using them. It is still the user’s responsibility to verify whether the licensing information is still valid or applicable to the images to avoid copyright infringement later on. ...
Google Image Search now has license tagging
Tech Digest —
... its redistribution. The web is a huge sharing portal and once a picture is published it is bound to be reused over and over again. If people do want their images to remain exclusive they should add a watermark or block image saving on it. The new Google search options should suit everyone though. People who aren't fussed about image rights can continue to search for images the usual way and people who do have concerns can use the new functionality. Everyone's a winner baby. (via Google) ...
Linkpost | 7.10.2009
TechBlog —
... - And for now it only works in Chrome and Firefox. • Find Creative Commons images with Image Search - At last, you can find images with Creative Commons rights applied to them via Google's Image Search. • ...
Google image search adds usage rights filtering
ZDNet News - News Page One —
... : Jul 10, 2009 5:41:44 AM In an effort to keep people from incorrectly reusing or repurposing images found on its image search tool, Google has added new options that let users filter results by usage rights . Users can now filter photos by whether they're available for reuse, commercial reuse, reuse with modification, or commercial use with modification. Google is including a variety of licensing methods including Creative Commons, GNU Free Documentation license, and items that are in the public domain. Its system for determining the rights on various shots is not foolproof ...
Google Image Search Gets Down With Creative Commons
AppScout —
... ? Google sure does. The company is showing its affection with the release of a new feature for Image Search, which lets users narrow down results to pictures tagged with a Creative Commons or similar license--so blogs and Websites can grab images without having to worry about paying royalties. ...
Google - Find Creative Commons Images Using Image Search
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP —
... allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons, making it easier to discover images from across the web that you can share, use and even modify. Your search will also include works that have been tagged with other licenses, like GNU Free Documentation license, or are in the public domain.
So give Image Search from Google a try and see what you think.
Comments welcome.
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Google adds Creative Commons image search
Obsessable News Feed —
... Yahoo search has had this feature for quite a while, and now Google has finally added a usage rights filter in its Advanced Search interface, allowing you to search for Creative Commons-licensed and public domain images. For those unfamiliar with CC, it's a set of several licenses for artistic and creative works that act to broaden the spectrum of copyright, allowing artists, musicians, photographers and others to allow certain uses of their work without requiring specific permission beforehand. ...
Google Introduces License Search To GIS.
I4U News —
... I write on the Internet for a living, so I know full well how much of a pain in the butt it can be to find safe, open domain images to use in articles. All you bloggers out there have probably had to deal with the same problem too, at one time or another. It can be very irksome and a little nerve-wracking to find just the right image, and it's definitely one part of the job we'd all like to do without. Fortunately, Google feels our pain . That's why they've added an additional set of filters to their Google Image Search. Now, using the advanced image search settings, you can ...
Google Images to identify free-to-use pics; Confirm on your own
Between the Lines —
... You know the drill. right? You come across an image on the Web that would go great with your blog post - but you don’t know if your violating someone by stealing an image that doesn’t belong to you. How are you supposed to know what’s OK to use? Google is rolling out a new feature in Google Images today that allows you to search for images that have been tagged as free to use - with or without restrictions. Sounds easy enough, right? Here comes the funny part, though, as noted in Google’s official blog post: There’s some fine print, of course. This feature identifies images ...
Google Adds Images to Local Search Results
ReadWriteWeb —
... It's nice to see, however, that Google now surfaces more images, It is also worth pointing out that yesterday, Google also announced that users can now easily filter Google Images by ...
Google Images Adds Creative Commons Search
Search Engine Roundtable —
Last week Google added a creative commons drop down filter to Google Image Search. The filter looks like this: Google Creative Commons Image Filter Google said: This feature allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons, making it easier to discover images from across the web that you can share, use and even modify. Your search will also include works that have been tagged with other licenses, like GNU Free Documentation license, or are in the public domain. This feature also helps artists who want ...
Google Image Search adds Creative Commons options
Download Squad —
... Google's image search is one of the fastest ways to find a picture of just about anything, but that doesn't mean you can use all of the images you find on your website or blog. We've shied away from finding images for Download Squad on Google Image Search in the past, ...
Remains of the Day: Stream Music Instead of Pirating Edition [For What It's Worth]
Lifehacker —
... Namely, Wired notes that the web versions of the Office apps are significantly dumbed down from their desktop counterparts. [Wired] Find Creative Commons images with Image Search This happened way back last week, but just in case you missed it, Google can narrow down image searches to Creative Commons-licensed images. [Official Google Blog]
Four short links: 14 July 2009
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. —
Twenty Questions about GPLv3 (Jacob Kaplan-Moss) -- twenty very challenging questions about the GPLv3. foo.js is a JavaScript library released under the GPLv3. bar.js is a library with all rights reserved. For performance reasons, I would like to minimize all my site’s JavaScript into a single compressed file called foobar.js. If I distribute this file, must I also distribute bar.js under the GPL?
CC Searching within Google Image Search -- what it seems. (via waxy)
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