Google Images Launches 'Licensable' Badge and Search Filter (petapixel.com) 5
Google today launched new features in Google Images "to help people use images on the web responsibly." From a report: The features should benefit photographers, as they help people both identify photos that can be licensed as well as find out how to properly license them. Google Images' new "Licensable" badge, which had been in beta testing since February 2020, is now live. "[W]ith a seemingly infinite number of images online, finding the right image to use, and knowing how to use that image responsibly, isn't always a simple task," Google says. Google's new Licensable badge aims to make it easier for photo buyers to find photos they can license. Whenever a publisher or photographer provides licensing information for a photo (by providing structured data or IPTC photo metadata), Google will display a badge that says "Licensable" over the photo in search results.
More tendrils (Score:1)
the google kudzu spreads...
Google is like jock itch (Score:2)
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If Google is going to do this (Score:4, Informative)
Then they need to make sure that if a licensable image is also public domain they need to mention that as well. Though it is perfectly legal to sell public domain products, stock image companies do tremendous amounts of SEO exploiting to shit up results as much as possible.
Select "creative commons" from the search options (Score:2)
Public domain doesn't exist in most countries.
In the US, where it does exist, it would be hard to know if the artist followed the copyright renewal process or not, so I'm not sure how Google would be able to reliably determine if an image is currently public domain or not.
What Google can do, and does, is handle Creative Commons licenses. At the top of the Google image search there is a drop down where you can select creative commons.
Other than creative commons, the metadata just lists a URL where informati