Photos of products from the '80s

January 14, 2016 11:07 AM

I'm looking for resources for photos of toys, beauty products and clothing from the 1980s that I can publish on a large content site, free of charge.

There are tons of images online that I would love to use, but they're on Pinterest and random blogs from which I do not have permission. I have access to Getty Editorial/Premium access, and scour etsy, eBay and Creative Commons on flickr for whatever I can find. But I can't find every image I would like to use.

This is for lists like this one on Buzzfeed. (In order to legally use the images they do there that aren't from ecommerce sites, I think they'd need permission from each site.) Are there any resources where I can get these retro images for free?

posted by Drohan to Media & Arts (1 answer total)

Flickr is a great repository of CC licensed material. You can usually set your search settings to the specific type of CC license you need. IANAL, I'm guessing that's going to be any license without an NC in it. Set your license and throw some terms at it to see what comes out.
posted by msbutah at 8:45 PM on January 14, 2016