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Getty Images files for bankruptcy amid mounting debt and AI competition
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Couldbealeotard lemmy.world Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#52 · Quote Reply
xangadix wrote:
I had an intern use a Getty Image he found on the open internet, on our website by accident. We got maybe 100 visitors in a week. He didn't know it was a Getty images, but yes, he should have cleared the image first. Somehow Getty found it and tried to sue us for thousands of dollars. Literally thousands, the number was completely ridiculous. Luckily I had good legal representation and he got i...

$500 seems pretty fair. It was genuine copyright infringement of a paid product for commercial use.
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Couldbealeotard lemmy.world Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#53 · Quote Reply
daggermoon wrote:
Cut out the worthless middle man. Hire a photographer.

The "worthless middleman" provides images immediately at a much lower cost then hiring a photographer and a helicopter in another country.
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shalafi lemmy.world shalafi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-22
#54 · Quote Reply
Couldbealeotard wrote:
$500 seems pretty fair. It was genuine copyright infringement of a paid product for commercial use.

They sued for thousands so in the end it would be $500. If they asked $500 up front, it would have been $50.
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shalafi lemmy.world shalafi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-22
#55 · Quote Reply
daggermoon wrote:
Cut out the worthless middle man. Hire a photographer.

Have any idea what a photographer costs?
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madcaesar lemmy.world madcaesar@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-03
#56 · Quote Reply

Getty Fucked
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daggermoon piefed.world daggermoon@piefed.world
Joined: 2026-03-01
#57 · Quote Reply
Cellery wrote:
No money. What now?

I don't have all the answers. I just think it's outrageous to have to pay for a photo of Kurt Cobain. I fucking hate Getty Images.
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Cellery quokk.au Cellery@quokk.au
Joined: 2026-09-30
#58 · Quote Reply
daggermoon wrote:
I don't have all the answers. I just think it's outrageous to have to pay for a photo of Kurt Cobain. I fucking hate Getty Images.

Haha well yeah, in that case I agree that any photo of him has at this point made the money it’s gonna make and it should be free.
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muusemuuse sh.itjust.works muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-25
#59 · Quote Reply
Couldbealeotard wrote:
$500 seems pretty fair. It was genuine copyright infringement of a paid product for commercial use.

Getty will steal other people’s photos on the Internet and sue the original photographer for using their own work. They do this all the time. Fuck Getty.
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curious_dolphin feddit.org curious_dolphin@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-10-19
#60 · Quote Reply
muusemuuse wrote:
Getty will steal other people’s photos on the Internet and sue the original photographer for using their own work. They do this all the time. Fuck Getty.

Sauce? I need something to be mad about today. Alas, I searched for getty sues original photographer and came up with articles about photographers suing Getty, but not the other way around.
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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
#61 · Quote Reply

Did all that gas station money dry up?

This was meant as a joke, then I realized that this is capitalism and it might actually be the same family/company
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pewgar_seemsimandroid lemmy.blahaj.zone pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-07-03
#62 · Quote Reply

damn, hopefully they get acquired by a European company.
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phorq lemmy.ml phorq@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-20
#63 · Quote Reply
hperrin wrote:
Not that I’m fond at all of Getty, but the fact that people are using AI slop instead of real photographs is disappointing.

It's the new clip-art and comic sans
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Fizz lemmy.nz Fizz@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2023-06-12
#64 · Quote Reply

They really got.destroyed by a few years of AI. Jeez what did they spend all their money on?
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Taleya aussie.zone Taleya@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-06-21
#65 · Quote Reply
YiddishMcSquidish wrote:

Getty? No. Photostock on the other hand....
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