Pixabay
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| Stunning free images & royalty free stock | |
| Image portal / stock photography | |
| languages | 26 language versions |
| operator | Pixabay GmbH, Berlin |
| editorial staff | Hans Braxmeier, Simon Steinberger |
| On-line | November 24, 2010 (currently active) |
| http://pixabay.com/ | |
Pixabay.com is an international website for photos, illustrations, vector graphics and videos. It was developed by Hans Braxmeier and Simon Steinberger and comprises more than 1.8 million images (as of June 29, 2020). These images are made available to the online community by photographers and graphic designers .
history
The company was founded on November 24, 2010 in Ulm . In March 2012, the simple image database was fundamentally redesigned into an interactive community platform that is available in 26 languages. With the programming interface (API) released in May 2012, users and developers can access Pixabay, search for images and integrate the results into their own pages. The API will u. a. used by the online drawing program Psykopaint and the website builder Jimdo . From June 2012 to January 2019 Pixabay u. a. represented alongside Flickr , Google and YouTube on the “CC Search” search page by Creative Commons . Two extensions for Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office have been available since 2018 .
At the beginning of 2019, the previously used Creative Commons license CC0 was replaced by a separate license. It is partly denied whether the pictures are still suitable for Open Educational Resources (free teaching materials). Particularly criticized is the fact that Pixabay has since then also marked images uploaded before 2019 with the new license on the website, although they were still published under the CC0. This represents an illegitimate notoriety of intellectual property rights . In addition, your own license uses indefinite legal terms such as "distribution".
description
The images on Pixabay are subject to the Pixabay license and can therefore be used for many applications free of charge and without naming the source. If you want to upload images to Pixabay, you have to register as a user under a freely selectable pseudonym. A verification of the picture author does not take place. The image authors must agree to the Pixabay license. The works may be copied, changed and distributed by the users. Commercial use is also possible under certain restrictions. Uploaded content is manually checked and activated by administrators or the user community of the website.
The forums on the website are only available in German and English.
Risks
The images are uploaded by anonymous users. There is therefore the risk that the uploader does not even have the copyright. Pixabay does not guarantee that the uploaded images are free from third party rights. Since the upload is anonymous, users who have been warned cannot make recourse to this person and are therefore left with the costs of the warning.
financing
Pixabay is funded by advertising. The images available for download include thematically similar images from paid stock photography providers, e. B. iStock and Shutterstock .
technology
The back-end is the Python framework Django develops and runs with PostgreSQL as a database system on a nginx - web server . An ElasticSearch server based on Lucene is used for the internal search function .
Web links
Individual evidence
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↑ District Court Charlottenburg (Berlin) HRB 201539 B, new entry on handelsregisterbekanntmachungen.de from November 21, 2018, accessed on August 7, 2019.
About Us , pixabay.com, accessed on August 7, 2019 - ↑ Via Pixabay ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jimdo - Take a look: Stock photos for your website!
- ↑ Free Pixabay plugins for Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office Pixabay Blog. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
- ↑ Pixabay terms of use including the exact license. Retrieved January 16, 2019
- ↑ Gabi Fahrenkrog: After Unsplash, Pixabay is also switching to its own license - which platform is still suitable for images? on open-educational-resources.de from May 1, 2019, accessed on August 7, 2019.
- ↑ Henry Steinhau: Pixabay changes from Creative Commons approval to a self-made license , irights.info of February 21, 2019, accessed on August 7, 2019.
- ↑ Summary of the Pixabay license. Retrieved January 16, 2019
- ↑ Terms of Service. Retrieved May 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Welt.de - These are the best free photo databases
- ↑ How secure are ClipDealer and Pixabay - do social media licenses for stock image archives protect against warnings? , April 15, 2013
- ↑ Image warnings by Nicolas Kamp and WeSaveYourCopyrights
- ↑ Pixabay powered by new server
