Last month, Flickr expanded its Wall Art print service to include images from the photo-sharing site’s professional artists as well as images licensed for commercial use through Creative Commons. The ...

Busted! You copied an image on your blog that you saw on the internet. You didn’t think you were doing anything wrong but it turns out you were. The image was copyrighted and now the copyright holder ...

Nonprofit organization Creative Commons is today publicly launching its search engine after more than two years of beta testing. The new service is designed to offer an easy way to search the commons’ ...

Flickr has quietly rolled out a change to its search interface that makes it a lot easier to find images that are licensed through Creative Commons. There’s a new “License” dropdown menu that shows at ...

From the blogger who's looking to spice up a post to the hacker who needs a punchy image for her startup's Facebook ad, everyone is turning to freely and easily available Creative Commons content for ...

Call it a bibliography for the 21st century: Microsoft’s new Sway app will be able to pull images from the Creative Commons repository via Bing and use them to illustrate stories. Sway already allows ...

Photography platform 500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under a Creative Commons license, and is removing the functionality to search and download such images. The site ...

Yahoo's recent move to sell prints of photos users have put on Flickr has sparked a backlash from many photographers who object to the company's policy of taking all the profits from sales of images ...

Not everyone is happy with Flickr’s latest use of users’ images: The photo sharing website has recently begun selling physical prints of pictures uploaded to the site, without compensating the ...

Heather VanMouwerik is a Ph.D. candidate in Russian History at the University of California, Riverside. You can follow her on Twitter, @hvanmouwerik, or check out her website. Summers in North ...

Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...