Flickr Tuesday February 24, 2026
Photo-sharing site Flickr recently looked back at 2025, detailing in a blog post what photographers were posting and what they were shooting with. Colors were big—the use of “red” was up 25% over 2024—as was travel photography, which jumped 17%. “Canon and Nikon are still locked in their decades-long faceoff, but this year the energy feels different. Canon is gaining ground fast with 17% growth, though Nikon still has the edge (but not by much),” notes the site. Read the full Story >>
Aperture Tuesday February 24, 2026
Since the mid-1970s, notes Aperture, Mimi Plumb “has chronicled man’s destructive relationship with nature, specifically in California. In her black-and-white photographs of the Golden State—whether depicting parched lake beds, a Texaco gas station submerged in the Salton Sea, or crowds gazing at conflagrations—Plumb cultivates a sense of doom and dreamlike un-reality.” Through May 10, the High Museum of Art, in Atlanta features the first museum survey dedicated to Plumb’s work. Read the full Story >>
TechCrunch Tuesday February 24, 2026
The AI industry’s pursuit of licensable content has been a messy affair, filled with lawsuits and accusations of copyright infringement. Now, as tech companies look for legally safe sources of AI training data, Amazon is reportedly considering launching a marketplace where publishers can license their content directly to AI companies. The e-commerce giant has been meeting with publishing executives and alerting them to its plans to launch such a marketplace, reports TechCrunch. Amazon wouldn’t be the first major tech company to take this route: Microsoft recently launched what it calls a Publisher Content Marketplace (PCM). Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday February 24, 2026
Jan. 1 was public domain day for 2026--the day when thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 entered the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925. They will be free for all to copy,
share, and build upon. Cartoon character Betty Boop entered the public domain, while literary highlights range from William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" to Agatha Christie's "The Murder at … Read the full Story >>
