ASMP to Getty Photographers: Time to Bail
This is from May of 2011, but still quite relevant, I think:
The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) has released a memo that all but advises Getty contributors to quit the agency and find other ways to distribute their stock photographs if they can.
American Photographic Artists (APA), meanwhile, has issued a veiled threat of legal action against the stock photo agency.
The uproar is over Getty's new contract terms for its contributors, which enable the agency to move rights-managed images that haven't been licensed for three years or longer to its royalty-free collections, and make royalty-free images available in its subscription products.
More of the article can be found:
http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/news/ASMP-to-Getty-Photog-2608.shtml
S.G.
This is from May of 2011, but still quite relevant, I think:
The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) has released a memo that all but advises Getty contributors to quit the agency and find other ways to distribute their stock photographs if they can.
American Photographic Artists (APA), meanwhile, has issued a veiled threat of legal action against the stock photo agency.
The uproar is over Getty's new contract terms for its contributors, which enable the agency to move rights-managed images that haven't been licensed for three years or longer to its royalty-free collections, and make royalty-free images available in its subscription products.
More of the article can be found:
http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/news/ASMP-to-Getty-Photog-2608.shtml
S.G.