Getty Images, the stock photo giant that many professional photographers loathe but amateurs love, on Thursday announced it will allow consumers to embed and share its images free for non-commercial purposes on blogs, social networks and other websites.
The move indicates the company, whose battery of highly paid lawyers has gone after copyright violations for years, is bowing to the brave new world brought about by the Internet, where people can easily copy and paste images from any source and want to do so for free.
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Getty Shifts to Plan B for Monetizing 35MM Images
Posted by: Richard Adhikari March 6, 2014 02:14 PMGetty Images, the stock photo giant that many professional photographers loathe but amateurs love, on Thursday announced it will allow consumers to embed and share its images free for non-commercial purposes on blogs, social networks and other websites.
The move indicates the company, whose battery of highly paid lawyers has gone after copyright violations for years, is bowing to the brave new world brought about by the Internet, where people can easily copy and paste images from any source and want to do so for free.