Since first emerging early last year, Boston-based startup Boundless has been on a mission to give students a free alternative to the financial and physical costs of bulky backpacks brimming with ...

Companies love to use third-party content for free. In this era of belt-tightening and slashed marketing budgets, why pay to create photos and videos for advertising and other commercial uses when ...

Busted! You copied an image on your blog that you saw on the internet. You didn’t think you were doing anything wrong but it turns out you were. The image was copyrighted and now the copyright holder ...

Wired.com photographers have the enviable job of shooting the coolest stuff and most intriguing people in the technology world. Now we're giving away many of those photos to you, the public, for free.

Flickr will allow free accounts to exceed its new 1,000 photo limit if the works are licensed publicly under Creative Commons. Credit: LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty Images Just days before Flickr mass ...

Creative Commons has long been known as a resource for free and legal images to use on the web. The non-profit organization has now launched the beta version of a new search engine called CC Search, ...

Creative Commons has officially launched a Web tool to aid content creators who want to publish material under the highly permissive CC0 license. The tool, which has been under development for over a ...

Last week, Flickr announced some major changes to the way its free service will work under new owner SmugMug. It set a 1,000-picture limit for free accounts, replacing the previously offered 1TB of ...

Neale Hooper was the principal lawyer for the Queensland Government’s Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF) Project, leading the legal work on the project from its inception in 2005. He is ...