Flickr & Fair Use Policy

Having a site like Flickr is good because of it's public domain. Anyone can use the pictures in the public domain, free of cost. The copyright law is no longer in effect for the pictures in the public domain. You could use the pictures in a magazine, book, or whatever you wanted without having to worry about contacting the photographer and possibly paying just to use the picture. There is also a fair use policy for things not in the public domain. It is usually the 10% rule, which mean you can only use 10% of most text and data. You can use up to 10%, but no more than 1000 words of essays, articles, or stories, of a single copyrighted work.

You may use 10% of data from a database, but no more than 2500 fields. You may use up to 10%, but no more than 3 minutes, of a single movie, TV show, or video. You may use of to 10%, but no more than 30 seconds of music You may use a single photograph/illustration. You may not use more than 5 images from a single artist or photographer. You may use up to 10%, but no more than 15 images from a publication.