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Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi)

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I found this rather amusing
« on: October 08, 2011, 03:37:13 PM »
It's old and outdated but humorous nonetheless, or at least in my warped mind..

http://www.fastmediamagazine.com/blog/2010/05/17/getty-images-lauches-stockphotorights-com/

I just love how they're educating the public "for the common good"..perhaps instead of sending letters they should just send this?
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Re: I found this rather amusing
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2011, 12:38:52 PM »
Agree with the humor, buddhapi. This presents them as an organization that cares about the common good and really wants to educate people about photo copyright law. But if the general public knew and abided by the laws, GI would cut off a significant source of their income from their violation/demand letters.
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Re: I found this rather amusing
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2011, 08:53:19 PM »
StockPhotoRights.com is a fairly simplistic site at this point built upon Wordpress (from what it looks like).

The site has some interesting nuggets but it is unclear where this website is going. There does not appear to be a lot of activity at this point. It appears that this is Getty's effort to cultivate some allies in the stock photo industry vs. being the big bad bro of the stock photo industry. All of this info could have been placed within the main Getty Images website but by having it be "independent", it appears to be trying to send a message that the issues go beyond any one stock photo company.

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Re: I found this rather amusing
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2011, 12:27:11 AM »
Thanks to Buddhapi for posting the info and link.

I see that site as "marketing" for Getty.
They're going through the motions of blogging about why people should buy from Getty versus others.

The biggest load of crap is the "legal protection" that Getty claims that it offers.
It's like they're justifying their high prices by "including" "value added" features such as "legal protection".
Customers shouldn't have to pay extra to be assured that a stock image house has procured its images legally.

If TemplateMonster has taught anyone anything, it's that companies will be held responsible if they offer infringing images for sale.

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Re: I found this rather amusing
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2011, 09:07:04 PM »
Just a tad cynical, are we?  LOL.

They want to put a "positive" spin on what they are doing in a dying industry.

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Re: I found this rather amusing
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2011, 07:36:20 PM »
The last thing they want to do is educate the public because this program is making them millions -otherwise they would have never paid $20 million for PicScout
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