The world’s largest photo service just made its pictures free to use

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The world’s largest photo service just made its pictures free to use

If you go to the Getty Images website, you’ll see millions of images, all watermarked. There are more than a hundred years of photography here, from FDR on the campaign trail to last Sunday’s…

via The Verge: http://mobile.theverge.com/2014/3/5/5475202/getty-images-made-its-pictures-free-to-use

Getty Images is dropping the watermark for the bulk of its collection, in exchange for an open-embed program that will let users drop in any image they want, as long as the service gets to append a footer at the bottom of the picture with a credit and link to the licensing page. For a small-scale WordPress blog with no photo budget, this looks an awful lot like free stock imagery.