100 Million CC Photos on Flickr

Fred Benenson, at Creative Commons, is reporting that Flickr now has over 100 million photos that use a Creative Commons license. The numbers are taken from Flickr’s Creative Commons portal. From the Creative Commons blog:

These photos have been used in hundreds of thousands of Wikipedia articles, blog posts, and even mainstream press pieces; all examples of new works that might not otherwise been created without our standardized public licenses. Flickr’s integration of CC licenses was one of the first and best; not only do they allow users to specify licenses per-photo, but they offer an incredible CC discovery page which breaks down searches for CC licensed materials by license.