Getty admits defeat

Dr Croubie · Mar 6, 2014

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26463886

Getty Images, the world's largest photo agency, has made vast swathes of its library free to use, in an effort to combat piracy. ...
Getty said it had made the move after realising thousands of its images were being used without attribution.

"Our content was everywhere already,"

I'm curious as to how this works with payments back to the photographer (if indeed they got anything to begin with).

Poisson Du Jour · Mar 6, 2014

Dr Croubie said:
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26463886

I'm curious as to how this works with payments back to the photographer (if indeed they got anything to begin with).

Photographers are contracted (paid) to Getty Images to produce work. Aussie expat David Trood, currently working in Copenhagen, produces both film and still images for Getty and is paid for the initial contract and all roll-off orders for images which are available in many sizes depending on what the need is. Once a photograph has been brought, it need not be attributed (e.g. Getty Images is all that needs be shown), but stock photography usually is requested to be attributed to the photographer e.g. Trood/Getty Images).

snapguy · Mar 6, 2014

Poster

I saw a poster once that said "It is immoral to let suckers keep their money." Or images.
I don't put anything on the Internet that is worth anything. And I don't count my $50 bills under a street lamp in the middle of the night in bad neighborhoods, or good. For the same reason.

Ken Nadvornick · Mar 6, 2014

snapguy said:
Don't count your $50 bills under a street lamp in the middle of the night in bad neighborhoods.

Now THAT is a ready-made signature line if I ever saw one...

Ken

David A. Goldfarb · Mar 6, 2014

How much is anyone making in micropayments for web usage anyway? I can't imagine any individual photographers having enough usage to make that pay, but for the agencies, a percentage of the micropayments for all the photographs they control seems like it should be something, in the way that a two-cent rise in the price of gas won't mean much to any single driver, but will be huge for the oil company. There's got to be a better model, since more and more usage will be electronic, and less and less print.

Athiril · Mar 6, 2014

The right of attribution, which comes under moral rights does not transfer with copyright if someone happens to buy copyright, as it cant be transferred or subverted by any contract. That's different to displaying the copyright holder, eg COPYRIGHT (C) BOB SMITH, not Photograph by Bob Smith.

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