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500px Closes Its Photo Marketplace (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the end-of-the-line dept.

Photo platform 500px has decided to close its in-house Marketplace that lets users buy and sell photos. According to Engadget, the service "will now rely on moving photos through Getty Images in most of the world as well as VCG (which acquired 500px in February) in China." From the report: Users no longer have the option to upload photos under a Creative Commons license that would let buyers remix photos or otherwise reuse them. There's no way to migrate, download or even search for these images. You won't have another CC-style license in its place, either. At best, you'll have a royalty-free 500px License that distributes pictures through either Getty or VCG. This isn't strictly a ploy to make photographers charge money, though. 500px informed The Verge that there weren't many people using CC images, many of which had outdated licenses. There were bugs searching for them, too.

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  1. So basically what this means is.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    So basically what this means is 500px is no longer offering free storage of pictures for people to download royalty free. Can't really blame them as hosting and storage of large pictures takes up a lot of storage space and bandwidth and if the host isn't making money from it theyre not going to be able to operate for long.