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Getty Images to Offer Free Photos to Combat Piracy

posted by Cactus on Saturday March 08 2014, @01:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the gratis-is-not-the-same-as-free dept.

mattie_p writes

"Getty Images, an American stock photo agency with over 80 million still photographs and more than 50,000 hours of video in its catalog, is offering about 35 million images for non-profit use for free, according to a report from the BBC and recent changes to its terms of use, in an effort to combat piracy.

Getty Images realized that many of their photographs have been utilized in the past without attribution, and embeds the photographs in code that links back to its own site. By offering the ability to embed photos, Getty is saying it cannot effectively police the use of its images in every nook and cranny of the internet. Yet it also may use the code to serve advertisements in the future, allowing it to make revenue by sharing its catalog.

Getty has been both the plaintiff and defendant in several lawsuits regarding use of their images online. This experiment may bode well for the future of freely (as in beer) distributed intellectual property in a free and connected society, but then again, maybe not."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by jpkunst on Saturday March 08 2014, @05:56AM

    by jpkunst (2310) on Saturday March 08 2014, @05:56AM (#13143)

    Are these images good for anything except for cluttering up news stories with useless stock photos? (Like a certain "nerdy" site has been doing in its "beta", for example?)
    I hate that trend. Why must every news story have an image even if there are no actual pictures pertaining to the event available?
    Hey, this story is about the police arresting someone. I know! Let's add a stock photo of a pair of handcuffs! Sigh.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Kell on Saturday March 08 2014, @10:02AM

    by Kell (292) on Saturday March 08 2014, @10:02AM (#13180)

    Some things can't really be conveyed without images (and that's fine). The real problem comes when people attach any old image to a story just because people today have such limited reading comprehension that without something graphical to focus them, it's all TL;DR. And of course, coddling them just makes it worse. I was tempted to put an ASCII picture of a bunny to help you make it this far, but ... well... I got distracted.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by FuckBeta on Saturday March 08 2014, @01:10PM

    by FuckBeta (1504) on Saturday March 08 2014, @01:10PM (#13230) Homepage

    (Like a certain "nerdy" site has been doing in its "beta", for example?)

    Fuck Beta!

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