Unsplash

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Unsplash
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The internet's source of freely useable images
Image portal / stock photography
languages English
operator Unsplash Inc. , Montreal
editorial staff Mikael Cho
Luke Chesser
Stephanie Liverani
Angus Woodman
On-line May 27, 2013 or September 14, 2014 (currently active)
http://unsplash.com/

Unsplash is an international website for photos made available by their authors for the online community to use free of charge. Over 1200 web apps access the stock of images via its own programming interface (API) , which now also includes historical photos.

history

Unsplash was founded in May 2013 as a Tumblr blog with 10 pictures that were left over from a photo job for the website of Crew , the start-up company of the founders at the time, and were offered for download under the CC0 license. The response to this contributed significantly to the continued existence of the startup. Initially, the claim was “10 new high-resolution photos every 10 days ” and in September 2014 the 776 images were moved from Tumblr to a separate domain . A search function was introduced in January 2015 and in May of the same year - two years after it was founded - the number of photographers had grown to 8,000 and the number of downloads to 30 million. The first event cooperation with Apple Stores took place three months later and a programming interface (API) was presented. In 2016, Apple advertised images of Unsplash photographers and Unsplash became available on Apple TV .

In January 2017, Unsplash Inc. was founded and Crew was separated . In June 2017, the company switched from the CC0 license to its own Unsplash license. It is partly denied whether the pictures are still suitable for Open Educational Resources (free teaching materials). The reason given was to want to take the wind out of the sails of imitators .

In 2018 the app for iOS was presented and today's logo was introduced. In July 2019, the Unsplash for Education started a cooperation with the New York Public Library , which has since published historically significant photos under its Unsplash user account.

License

The images published before January 5, 2017 were brought into circulation under the CC0 license, but there is no indication of this in the individual photos. The license, which has been in effect since February 2018, allows extensive, including commercial use (e.g. in advertisements) without naming names, except for the mere resale without adding your own creative work or elements and the sale of products such as posters with such unaltered photos or objects (cups, clothes, etc.); It is also not permitted to build your own image database or a similar service from the downloaded images. The existence of a model contract is not checked, so the license does not include the use of photos of people; The same applies to the brand logos and works of art shown.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Terms & Conditions on unsplash.com, accessed on August 7, 2019.
  2. ↑ Michael Cho: How side projects saved our startup on qz.com from October 16, 2014, accessed on August 5, 2019 (English).
  3. ↑ History on unsplash.com, accessed on August 8, 2019.
  4. ↑ Michael Cho: Hello, Unsplash, Inc. on medium.com from January 5, 2017, accessed on August 8, 2019 (English).
  5. ↑ Faye Gelb: Unsplash is no longer under a CC0 license. Do you care? on medium.com from June 25, 2017, accessed August 8, 2019.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Henry Steinhau, David Pachali: Dispute over free images: Photo services Unsplash and Pixabay interfere with Copycats from August 16, 2017, accessed on August 8, 2019.
  8. ↑ Michael Cho: Why we moved from the Creative Commons-Zero License to the Unsplash License on medium.com from January 25, 2018, accessed on August 8, 2019.
  9. ↑ Alex Begin: Unsplash enters new territory with the New York Public Library on medium.com on July 25, 2019, accessed on August 8, 2019.
  10. ↑ Unsplash Blog: The Unsplash License - FAQs on medium.com from March 6, 2018, accessed on August 8, 2019.
  11. ↑ Terms & Conditions: 5. License to Photos on unsplash.com, accessed August 8, 2019.