Dev.SN ♥ developers
Sections
Dev.SN
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."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by AnythingGoes on Saturday March 08 2014, @10:55AM
It will be a graduated scale (depending on how much you will be asked to pay).
Step 1: First it is free.
Step 2: Then they will embed advertisement links.
Step 3: Then they will add subtle product placements (your Coca Cola bottle suddenly changes to a Pepsi logo, depending on whether Coca Cola or Pepsi paid more that day)
Step 4: Creatively change other parts to make your life difficult e.g. Photoshopping a (short/bald/fat) man into an unpaid photo for man products
Step 5: Link all requests from your site to goatse... :)
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 08 2014, @02:20PM
You forgot the obligatory steps:
Step 6: ???
Step 7: Profit
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.