Each user has the ability to search for photos thanks to "keywords" that have been added to each of them
An American academic is creating a database of 12 million copyright-free photos, according to the BBC.
The reason is Kalev Leetarou, who has already uploaded 2.6 million photos to the popular flickr website.
Each user has the ability to search for photos thanks to "keywords" that have been added to each of them.
“For all these years, libraries have been digitizing their books, but in PDF format, making it impossible to use the photos for free,” says Kalev Leetarou. “They focused on the words and not the photos. That’s changing,” he added.
"Besides, in many books there are photographs that do not exist anywhere else. You cannot find them even in art galleries. The reason is that the originals have been lost for many years," explains the American academic.
His collection includes photographs from books published from 1500 to 1922, the year that copyright restrictions were first implemented.
Source: protothema.gr
