Although I cannot be 100% sure of this, both myself and my ex-marketing director believe that in 2005 Getty's royalty free images web site:
In April of 2007, we stopped using photos from that site. Both my ex-marketing director and myself remember him coming into my office to tell me that the free photos were no longer free and were exorbitantly priced. I think that was when Getty changed the site to a shopping cart.
I tried to verify what we remember by going to archive.org, but Getty will not allow them to archive that page prior to 2009. Is there anywhere else I can go to see what that page looked like in 2005.
I feel like a complete sucker. They put the pics out there, told us they were free, said nothing about copyright, then changed the rules and now are demanding close to $50,000 for infringements that stopped taking place over 5 years ago.
Does anyone else recall getting their images free from getting and now being trolled?
- did not speak of license fees, and
- allowed visitors to search for pics, with no copyright notice, right click and save them to their device.
In April of 2007, we stopped using photos from that site. Both my ex-marketing director and myself remember him coming into my office to tell me that the free photos were no longer free and were exorbitantly priced. I think that was when Getty changed the site to a shopping cart.
I tried to verify what we remember by going to archive.org, but Getty will not allow them to archive that page prior to 2009. Is there anywhere else I can go to see what that page looked like in 2005.
I feel like a complete sucker. They put the pics out there, told us they were free, said nothing about copyright, then changed the rules and now are demanding close to $50,000 for infringements that stopped taking place over 5 years ago.
Does anyone else recall getting their images free from getting and now being trolled?