500px Expands into China with 500px.me, and Some Photographers Aren’t Happy

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500px Expands into China with 500px.me, and Some Photographers Aren’t Happy

Back in July 2015, we reported that 500px had raised an additional $13 million in funding led by China’s equivalent of Getty Images, the Visual China

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/10/15/500px-expands-into-china-with-500px-me-and-some-photographers-arent-happy/

“My images have been copied to your new chinese version of 500px without my permission,” says Ted Gore. “If that’s not bad enough, the colors have all been shifted, the order of their placement is completely random, and any information for any viewer to find me or any information about me seems to be absent.”

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