The content provider announced last week that it was planning to file in Delaware bankruptcy court after its near $4 billion merger with rival Shutterstock collapsed due to British antitrust challe…
Maybe just the ones that won’t sue you for your life’s savings if you accidentally use one of their publicly available images on a random ass website receiving 50 visitors a month will survive. The ones people don’t actively hate.
As opposed to the previous trend of getty greedily monopolising the industry, stealing images that they don’t own copyright for and using their lawyers to mute smaller competitors they steal from?
In this case AI is the lesser of two evils. If you don’t hate getty, you simply don’t know enough about them.
Because I love companies selling historical images that should be public domain and than adding their fucking watermark to all images of theirs that appear in search engines. Fuck Getty Images.
Soon all stock photo image sites will close and we will just have AI images for everything. Uplifting news?
Maybe just the ones that won’t sue you for your life’s savings if you accidentally use one of their publicly available images on a random ass website receiving 50 visitors a month will survive. The ones people don’t actively hate.
As opposed to the previous trend of getty greedily monopolising the industry, stealing images that they don’t own copyright for and using their lawyers to mute smaller competitors they steal from? In this case AI is the lesser of two evils. If you don’t hate getty, you simply don’t know enough about them.
Because I love companies selling historical images that should be public domain and than adding their fucking watermark to all images of theirs that appear in search engines. Fuck Getty Images.
Well fuck all stock photo companies too then eh?
Cut out the worthless middle man. Hire a photographer.