

Usually, laundered files are available elsewhere on the web, although they may also be scanned from paper sources.Īnother simple technique is to look at the other photos included in the same page or set at the source website. One of the simplest is to search for the image-using keywords from its title/description or using an image search such as TinEye or Google Search by Image-and see if an official source website can be found.
#Who owns th ephotos on fllickr license
There are several ways to detect license laundering. If license laundering is suspected, even if the source user is claiming to be the copyright owner, the file should be nominated for deletion. Laundered licenses are thus difficult to detect as copyright violations, and indeed deceive good faith users who accept the illegitimate licenses at face value. License laundering is problematic because it falsely presents as genuine a license for which the true copyright holder has not given their permission. For this reason, the term Flickr washing to refer to license laundering via Flickr is also frequently used.
#Who owns th ephotos on fllickr free
License laundering is particularly common with photo sharing websites that allow their users to specify a free license for their images, such as Flickr or Picasa Web Albums. So too is license laundering: taking an image with a non-free copyright status (a disallowed, thus undesirable trait) and uploading it, without permission from the copyright holder, to a website that claims to release it under a free license. Money laundering may take the form of purchasing a gift card with a stolen credit card (transaction mechanism) to remove traceability (undesired trait).

Clothes laundering may take the form of a washing machine (mechanical mechanism) to remove dirt (undesired trait). Laundering is the process of using a mechanism to remove an undesired trait. This is typically done either by submitting permission via e-mail, or by posting a public statement on the copyright holder's website. Unless the uploader is the copyright holder, we require proof that the copyright holder released the work under the license. All works on Wikimedia Commons are required to be released under a free license by their copyright holder.
