New wording and interface on Getty's site

[SoylentGreen]

There's a lot of speculation going here recently.
But, it's just that; speculation.

S.G.

[Moe Hacken]

That may be, nothing wrong with that. We may be giving Getty too much credit — they may not even know why the form has a regional selector. It could be the designer left it in from some template he picked up on the intertubes.

What remains fairly clear is that Getty continues to put on airs of self-importance and puff up their brand in an attempt to justify their ridiculous price structure. Their stuff is just not worth that much money and the fancy license calculator with a cryptic geographic region selector does not really disguise that fact.

[SoylentGreen]

The Getty drones probably don't care to explain it why the "country" selection is there.
The management surely does know, even if it's only used for marketing intelligence purposes.

Yes, royalty-free is the way to go.
Rights managed images are overpriced for most normal applications.

S.G.

[Couch_Potato]

I'll go with S.G's point about marketing intelligence. Just Getty looking for data. I can't see anything more sinister here. Getty have always claimed they have worldwide exclusivity for images in their rights-managed collections.