They really got.destroyed by a few years of AI. Jeez what did they spend all their money on?
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 it down to 500 dollars, which is still ridiculous for a small mistake.
Get fucked, Getty
$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.
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.
They sued for thousands so in the end it would be $500. If they asked $500 up front, it would have been $50.
Getty Fucked
Not that I’m fond at all of Getty, but the fact that people are using AI slop instead of real photographs is disappointing.
Uplifting news
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.
So, nothing is lost? OK, moving on.
Parasitic IP rent seekers can go to hell.
How is it possible to lose money when your whole business model is based on theft?
Literally, what are their expenses?
maintenance, mostly
Paying their lawyers to sue people
LMAO, GET FUCKED!
getty fucked
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You didn’t read OP’s link, huh?
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