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Re:Flickr now offers Public Domain and CC0 designations by mosburger on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @03:40PM (#9299320)
It seems like there've been a crop of small sites trying to build in a "public domain stock photography" niche (http://www.pexels.com/, https://stocksnap.io/, and https://unsplash.com/ to name a few). I wonder if this will kill them off. :-/

Right now http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons (where I usually head to look for creative commons photos) lists zero public domain images.

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Re:Flickr now offers Public Domain and CC0 designations by codingdog on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @03:50PM (#9299385)
Marc from StockSnap.io here! We honestly couldn't be happier that Flickr is doing this and we'll be sure to add their CC0 photos to our repository.
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Re:Flickr now offers Public Domain and CC0 designations by mosburger on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @05:19PM (#9299974)
I have no idea why it didn't even occur to me that the sharing went both ways - totally makes sense now. :)
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Re:Flickr now offers Public Domain and CC0 designations by usaphp on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @05:12PM (#9299929)
> I wonder if this will kill them off.

Absolutely NOT. Quite the opposite I think. Using Flickr now pexels, stocksnap, unsplash etc.. will be able to cherrypick the best and highest quality photos from thousands useless on flickr.

The main reason I am using unslplash.com and other sites is the quality of photos. The other day I tried to use a CC photo from flickr I've spent most of my time just searching for a good quality photo.

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Re:Flickr now offers Public Domain and CC0 designations by cgimmer on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @04:07PM (#9299506)
The benefit of these niche sites is the high level of quality. With Flickr, you'll need to sift through a lot of not so great photos.
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