And Flickr would still require those users who have shared CC photos in the past to pay for a subscription if they wanted to expand their collection further-it just won’t delete their old photos, as it plans to on accounts that use a more traditional license.

That hasn’t changed,” the company wrote in a post titled “The Commons: The Past 100% Part of Our Future.”īut while the company will continue to maintain all photos shared with a Creative Commons license prior to last week’s announcement, most of the changes affecting its free users will still apply: The company will limit non-paying users to just 1,000 photos, a sharp decrease from its former 1 terabyte limit, and push users to its $49.99 per year professional offering. “Those photos, and your ability to share them, are important to us. In a blog post, the owners of the longtime photo-sharing platform-which was purchased from Oath by the owners of fellow photo-sharing platform SmugMug earlier this year-characterized the decision as protecting an important part of what made Flickr an attractive acquisition in the first place.

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