FRIENDS AND MEMBERS OF THE ALLIANCE, GETTY IMAGES MAKES 35 MILLION PHOTOS FREE TO USE ONLINE Founded in 1997, Getty Images has made a business out of licensing stock photography to web sites. But, in recent years, the company has struggled, facing stiffer competition from other companies....and from online piracy. Quoted in the British Journal of Photography, Craig Peters, a Senior VP at Getty Images, observes that Getty is really starting to see the extent of online infringement. In essence, everybody today is a publisher thanks to social media and self-publishing platforms. And its incredibly easy to find content online and simply right-click to utilize it. All of this becomes a problem, for Getty, when cash-strapped self publishers, who typically dont know anything about copyright and licensing, start right clicking and using the companys images without attribution or payment. openculture/2014/03/getty-images-makes-35-million-photos-free-to-use-online.html
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:34:24 +0000
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