500px no longer lets you sell photos directly or publicly license them for free

500px no longer lets you sell photos directly or publicly license them for free

6 years ago
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https://thenextweb.com/apps/2018/07/02/500px-has-killed-off-its-stock-photo-marketplace-and-creative-commons-licensing-options/

Over the weekend, 500px shut down its Marketplace, which was set up in 2014 and allowed members to license their photographs for commercial use through its platform. And with that, users have also lost the ability to share their work with content creators to remix and use in their own projects under Creative Commons licenses.

The change will affect not only 500px’s community of 13 million users around the world, but also those who relied on the platform for images to purchase directly from photographers, and use publicly licensed ones for free. Photos will now be available exclusively through Getty Images for most countries, and through VCG in China – and you will no longer be able to search for or download free images on the site.