Hey Sean!

My co-founder Luke addressed all the issues and false claims by the CC article above.

Hope this helps!

Hey Joe!

My co-founder Luke addressed all the issues and false claims by the CC article above.

Hope this helps!

Hey Tiffany,

There are no changes as the Unsplash License is similar in spirit to the CC0 (free to use, requires no attribution, license is unrevokable, can be used for commercial and personal use), except for one change: we do not allow users to scrape the photos from Unsplash to create copycat sites.

We created this change to protect and support our contributors in a way that the CC0 License could not. More here: https://community.unsplash.com/help-section/what-is-the-unsplash-license-and-where-can-i-find-it

We also wanted to share our points on Creative Commons' post, because some of the facts presented in that post aren't true. You can read that here: https://community.unsplash.com/articles/inresponsetocc

We try to support our contributors as much as we can, and we've been doing so since the early days. It's in our Manifesto, and the change in the Unsplash License allows us to do so.

If you have any questions, I'd be happy to help!

This is correct. Thanks for sharing!

Hey Rizwan :) hope you were able to see my reply to Jacob's message.

If you have any questions, would love to help!

Hey Jacob,

The change in the Unsplash License affects mainly those copycat sites that pull images from Unsplash, slap them on their site, and don't credit (or properly credit contributors). We were receiving countless complaints from our community, and felt that this is not the type of usage that we want to support.

We elaborated on that here: https://community.unsplash.com/help-section/what-is-the-unsplash-license-and-where-can-i-find-it

and in our Manifesto: https://community.unsplash.com/articles/manifesto

The Unsplash License is very similar to the CC0 License, in that it supports creativity, free usage of photos under personal and commercial use, and it is sub-licensable and nonrevokable.

It's unfortunate that the article shared by the CC team portrays the License in such a way that is different to CC0, but the spirit is still the same.

We felt that it was important to share our point of view, so we put together this response to the Creative Commons post: https://community.unsplash.com/articles/inresponsetocc

Hope this clarifies, but it would be my pleasure to answer any additional questions you may have.

Thanks!

Hey Nick!

While we’re no longer using CC0, the spirit of our license is unchanged (it’s still sub-licensable & non-revocable). The article above doesn't share the facts of the Unsplash License correctly, so we shared our reply here: https://community.unsplash.com/articles/inresponsetocc

Would love to help with any questions you might have.