Link: GettyMart and Their 35 Million Free Images | Todd Bigelow Photography
So why doesn’t Walmart just follow GettyMart’s example? Why not make 35 million products available for free like GettyMart has? Won’t that solve their shoplifting problem? After all, if you listen to the official word out of GettyMart, they see no other way to combat their electronic shoplifting except to open the doors and say “Hey! Don’t Steal, We’re Giving It To You For Free!” Well, isn’t that nice?
The photo agency has decided to allow noncommercial websites and social media users to publish its images at no cost using an “embedding” tool.
Mr. Peters said the agency would be taking a liberal approach to the term “noncommercial,” including websites that carry ads, and even large commercial news sites that use the images to illustrate editorial content.
Following the announcement by Getty Images that the agency would be allowing non-commercial uses of its images free of charge, we interviewed Craig Peters, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Marketing at Content Images at Getty, to try and fin
Following the announcement by Getty Images that the agency would be allowing non-commercial uses of its images free of charge, we interviewed Craig Peters, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Marketing at Content Images at Getty, to try and find out what the agency hopes to gain from this extraordinary decision.
The image above by Flickr contributor Jack Fussell artfully illustrates change, but not the type of “change” that means money. Because I’m using it for free compliments of Getty Images new image embed feature which allows Internet users to use images for
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2014/03/getty-images-progressive-destructive/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
The system of giving content away for free seems to be a continuing acknowledgement that image theft and lack of attribution is untamable
Getty Images lit up the Twittersphere today with an announcement that it was making its archive available free of charge for bloggers and other non-commercial users. Some of the big questions are: What is Getty gaining by making images free to the public?
The decision also has implications for the perceived value of images. Stock photo prices fell precipitously for years, eventually to prices as low as a dollar, forcing many photographers out of the stock photo business. Now, billions of images are shot and uploaded annually by everyone including amateurs, further devaluing images.
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.
UPDATE: We’ve received responses from both Survival Magazine (which is online only had says it has no print edition) and the photographer. You can read their statements at the bottom of this post. Original item below: How should you respond if a photograp
How should you respond if a photographer says you’re using her photo without permission? Probably not by calling her an asshole.
Meet Xavier Di Petta and Kyle Cameron, ages 17 and 19, whose ability to build a massive audience from nothing may be unparalleled in media today.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/the-2-teenagers-who-run-the-wildly-popular-twitter-feed-historyinpics/283291/
The audiences that Di Petta and Cameron have built are created with the work of photographers who they don’t pay or even credit. They don’t provide sources for the photographs or the captions that accompany them. Sometimes they get stuff wrong and/or post copyrighted photographs.
Getty Images and Agence France-Presse (AFP) have asked a federal district court to undo the $1.2 million jury verdict against them for willful infringement of photographer Daniel Morel’s copyrights, calling the verdict “a miscarriage of justice.” In a bri
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/01/getty-afp-appeal-1-2-million-jury-verdict-in-daniel-morel-case.html
The award was the maximum amount of statutory damages possible under the law in the case, given that the jury found that both agencies infringed with willful intent.
Archivist Rick Prelinger sez, “The U.S. Department of Defense has entered into a contract with T3 Media to get its gigantic still and moving image collection digitized at no cost to the gover…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/12/21/us-department-of-defenses-pu.html
In exchange for covering a share of digitizing and hosting costs (the government will pick up an unspecified share of costs as well), T3 Media will provide access to the government and receive a 10-year exclusive license to charge for public access to these public domain materials.
I feel most filmmakers are looking at this moment in time as an age of opportunity. But having gone through this revolution already in the music business, I feel compelled to tell you why right now we should be questioning everything.There are countless c
via Hope For Film: http://trulyfreefilm.hopeforfilm.com/2013/11/hey-filmmakers-you-guys-are-next-a-word-of-warning-from-the-music-industry.html
I feel most filmmakers are looking at this moment in time as an age of opportunity. But having gone through this revolution already in the music business, I feel compelled to tell you why right now we should be questioning everything.
How Ted Koppel and ABC TV Tried to Steal my Life Work By Nate Thayer December 8, 2013 I am banned by legal agreement to write the following: ABC Television/ Disney Corporation, after seven years in…
via natethayer: http://natethayer.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/how-ted-koppel-and-abc-tv-tried-to-steal-my-life-work/
I am banned by legal agreement to write the following: ABC Television/ Disney Corporation, after seven years in court, where they attempted to bankrupt me and ruin my reputation for objecting to them stealing fifteen years of my life work, buckled and paid me. They have the legal right to take back the money they finally paid me–which actually all went to lawyers and taxes–if I open my mouth.
F*ck them.
Creative Commons has released version 4.0 of its sharing-friendly, easy-to-use copyright licenses. The new licenses represent a significant improvement over earlier versions. They work in over 60 j…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/11/29/new-cc-licenses-tighter-shor.html
Creative Commons has released version 4.0 of its sharing-friendly, easy-to-use copyright licenses. The new licenses represent a significant improvement over earlier versions
In a victory for photographer rights, a New York court awarded Daniel Morel $1.2 million after finding two photo agencies improperly used his photos of Haiti’s earthquake.
All photographs by Dominic Bracco II/Prime/Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.
In a decision this afternoon, the jury on the Daniel Morel vs. Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Getty Images trial awarded the defendant, Daniel Morel, the maximum statutory damages entitled by the law–in the amount of $1.2 million—finding that the corporat
via Rangefinder: http://blog.wppionline.com/2013/11/jury-awards-daniel-morel-full-extent-of-law-finds-afp-getty-willful-in-copyright-violation/
And the defense? “There was stone silence from the defense. [They were] dumbfounded—looked like a bomb went off!”
A jury has awarded photographer Daniel Morel $1.2 million in damages after deciding that Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Getty Images willfully violated his copyright. The award is the maximum amount of statutory damages possible under the law. AFP and Get
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/11/jury-awards-daniel-morel-1-2-million-in-damages-from-afp-getty-images.html
And the defense? “There was stone silence from the defense. [They were] dumbfounded—looked like a bomb went off!”
The jury is expected to announce its verdict today in the trial to determine damages in the copyright infringement case photographer Daniel Morel brought against Agence France-Presse and Getty Images, following yesterday’s closing arguments by lawyers
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/11/after-closing-arguments-verdict-expected-soon-in-morel-v-afp-and-getty-images.html
And the defense? “There was stone silence from the defense. [They were] dumbfounded—looked like a bomb went off!”