Comments on: flickR works against photographers by stripping EXIF data

By: Jeff Johnston

Jeff Johnston — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:05:17 +0000

Keep up the good work. They should have no basis to strip the data.

By: Anthony Citrano

Anthony Citrano — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:56:09 +0000

Ha I didn't know it was you. Yeah, basically, they keep it, but they strip it out of the resized images. So if someone downloads one of the resized versions, the metadata is gone.

By: jason2008

jason2008 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:53:11 +0000

Oh I misunderstood, I thought you said FlickR removed that data. I see so it's only removed when users download the photo.

Your brother Jay

By: Anthony Citrano

Anthony Citrano — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:56:09 +0000

Haha I didn't know it was you. Yeah, basically, they keep it, but they strip it out when they make the resized images. So if someone downloads the image the metadata is gone. I do think they're going to do something about it.

By: jason2008

jason2008 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:53:11 +0000

Oh I misunderstood, I thought you said FlickR removed that data. I see so it's only removed when users download the photo.

Your brother Jay

By: Unsure about renewing Flickr Pro membership - All Narfed Up

Unsure about renewing Flickr Pro membership - All Narfed Up — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:04:38 +0000

[...] Flickr works against photographers by stripping EXIF data (The Cosmic Tap) [...]

By: Anthony Citrano

Anthony Citrano — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:29:03 +0000

Jason – the data for the images is there if it was uploaded – it's on the “meta” page of every single one of my uploaded images.

By: jason2008

jason2008 — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:32:36 +0000

This will be a serious undertaking for FlickR to embed the original data from all of the the uploads. The data is most likely not filed conveniently, if at all. I have the feeling that FlickR will close before taking this on, but it is something that they must do to protect the works and allow the photo data to remain behind the image.

Another option would be to begin this undertaking with all the Pro account first. The Pro accounts are usually the most serious of photographers but I have seen many serious and excellent photographers with free accounts also.

By: jason2008

jason2008 — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:31:50 +0000

By: Paula

Paula — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:12:27 +0000

This is rather serious, since it is an easy thing to keep the creator exif data. Makes you wonder WHY they find if necessary to strip it, since I can upload tags from my exif data easily…