{"id":7461,"date":"2009-05-12T12:39:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T07:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=7461"},"modified":"2020-04-24T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T08:45:03","slug":"flickr-license-united-states-government-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2009\/05\/flickr-license-united-states-government-work\/","title":{"rendered":"New Flickr License: United States Government Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now Flickr is supporting a new license called\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">United States Government Work<\/span>, which labels most Obama photos from the White House Flickr photostream. So what prompted the release of this new license?<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #428bca;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obamawhitehouse\/3484868454\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3539\/3484868454_30c937d0ed_m.jpg\" alt=\"White House\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Most photos on Flickr photos sharing site are labeled \u201c<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">All rights reserved<\/span>\u201d or bear\u00a0Creative Commons licenses\u00a0with \u201c<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Some Rights Reserved<\/span>\u201c, should image owners decide to share them with the world. Recently the White House launched the\u00a0Official White House Photostream\u00a0on Flickr, with some amazing insider photos by their official photographerPete Souza\u00a0and released photos under a\u00a0CC license.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0Creative Commons\u00a0under whose license the photos were released, wondered if the photos were in the\u00a0public domain\u00a0and can be used without attribution as the photos were\u00a0works created by the federal government\u00a0and not entitled to copyright protection.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a style=\"color: #428bca;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/05\/white-house-photos\" rel=\"noopener\">Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>\u00a0points to Flickr photostreams of other public institutions like\u00a0Smithsonian\u00a0and\u00a0Library of Congress\u00a0which are are labeled with \u201c<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">No known copyright restrictions<\/span>\u201d\u00a0explaining\u00a0that the photo is either public domain or is owned by an institution that is not exercising control over the image.<\/p>\n<p>Now Wired noticed that the\u00a0White House Licenses changed\u00a0and Flickr introduced a new license called the\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">United States Government Work<\/span>\u00a0which links to theCopyright Law\u00a0of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code. So you can go through the long document and read the fine print should you decide to use these amazing never seen before photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now Flickr is supporting a new license called\u00a0United States Government Work, which labels most Obama photos from the White House&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":39098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}