Yahoo!, the previous owner of Flickr, sold the service to the image-sharing site SmugMug in April 2018. Photos won’t be removed from these accounts. If the holder of a Flickr account dies, a relative can notify Flickr of this, and (after verification) the account will become an ‘in memoriam’ collection in tribute to that photographer. “Any member (Free or Pro) can still change the license of any of their photos on the photo page.” “We’ve done this to prevent community members from flipping all their images to a new license without first understanding the significant implications of the various free licenses we support,” Flickr says in a blog entry. Before you rush to change the licence on all of your photos, however, be aware that Flickr has disabled its batch-processing tools for altering licences on Free accounts. If you have applied a CC licence to any of your photos on Flickr, Flickr has now undertaken to continue to provide it free of charge to the whole Flickr community. The subscription plan is £5.99/$5.99 a month, with a discount if you pay annually rather than monthly. The key exception to this move, of course, is any Flickr member who has a Pro account rather than a Free account.

Images and videos will be removed according to the order in which they were uploaded, starting with the oldest. From 12 March, accounts with more than 1,000 photos or videos will have content deleted.

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