Is flickr free

As of April 2013, Flickr

is a free service owned and operated by Yahoo.

The question may mean, "can I use the images found on flickr

for free?" and the answer to that is "it depends."

Many flickr

account holders allow the public to use one or more of their images for free, even commercially and even with the ability to modify or tweak the image, provided that proper attribution is afforded to the author of the work (generally speaking, the photographer who posted the picture on flickr).

Many flickr

members use one or another licensing scheme of the Creative Commons.

The flickr

member interested in using another flickr

member's photograph should see what use guidelines the member who posted the picture on flickr

has dictated for the image.

It is poor form, and potentially legally risky, to use a photograph found on flickr

that has not clearly been indicated as able to be used by third parties.