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Getty Images Letter Forum / Pinterest New Relationship With Getty Images

« on: October 27, 2013, 06:35:48 AM »

I am submitting this as a potential red flag. I received a notice from Pinterest about a new arrangement with Getty Images. I am wondering if I should close my Pinterest account. This is the information that Pinterest put out about it:

We’re constantly challenging ourselves to make Pinterest better. One thing we’ve found is that the more we know about a pin, the more valuable we can make it for you. That’s why we’ve been working with partners to get more data into Pinterest to help us make recommendations, make pins more useful, and even offer notifications when prices drop. Today, we are excited to announce a partnership with Getty Images to learn more about the images you pin.

Getty Images is one of the industry’s best and broadest collections of imagery created by a community of hundreds of thousands of contributors. Their collection not only includes great images but also data about each image. This can include who took the image, when, where, and what’s in the picture. We think this will be really valuable, especially when pin descriptions and links are as not as helpful as we’d hope.

For example, you may stumble across a pin of a delicious dish that strikes you as something you might like to make someday. Unfortunately, if the original pinner uploaded the image and skimped on the description or if the link is broken, we probably couldn’t tell you that it’s scallops with brussels sprouts, chorizo and mustard fondue. Also, if you searched for “scallops with brussels sprouts,” we wouldn’t know that this great image by Getty Images contributor Thomas Barwick is a match. With Getty Images’ help, we hope to be able to make this image more useful and suggest another recipe with scallops and brussels sprouts or healthy scallop recipes.

As part of our agreement, we’ll pay Getty Images a fee for the data they share and will help make sure that their images get proper attribution. We’re just getting started with Getty Images but we’re excited about the possibilities of what their data can help us deliver. Stay tuned for updates!

I do not want to overreact but I do not trust Getty. Go figure! So thoughts about this would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Got the Getty Letter

« on: June 05, 2013, 12:36:17 PM »

Thanks, Greg, the video was very informative. I have a few Adsense ads and a couple of affiliate ads so technically it is a commercial site, although only marginally.

I have reviewed all my images. There were a couple of others from blogs so I removed any that were not from Shutterstock and flickr with attribution and now those are my only sources.  I will be converting all to paid images just as a form of self protection.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Got the Getty Letter

« on: June 04, 2013, 04:14:37 PM »

Thanks, I have started educating myself. I am leaning toward Oscar's program. I am not an attorney. Doing this website has meant that absolutely everything I am doing is new, and although there is no question that I have to become more knowledgeable about copyright issues, having an experienced person(s) handling this would be a good idea. No one can be a master of everything.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Got the Getty Letter

« on: June 04, 2013, 03:04:07 PM »

I got the letter yesterday and it definitely was a shock.

I have a young website and blog on health. Most of my images are from Shutterstock and Flickr with attribution. In January I was featuring a series of guest posts and the Flickr plugin stopped working so I did some searches in Google. I found one that Getty is claiming. It was on another blog so I used it with attribution.

I have since removed it from the post, the site, Google and Pinterest.

So frankly I am in the wrong on this although it was an unintentional mistake. There was no reference to Getty including in the source code for the page.

Anyway, since I am in the wrong, do I need to pay up even though Getty is clearly extorting?

Thanks for your help.

Note: I saw that someone else had checked to see if the image was commonly used so I thought I would try it. It is! Here is the link: https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&q=hamster+wheel&tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAQSYxphCxCo1NgEGgQIAggFDAsQsIynCBo4CjYIARIQ-wT6BO4EgwWABYgFjAWHBRog94wmZFiQhWhzevqGNuqIpcp8mvt2opZMXocuGD-qlbQMCxCOrv4IGgoKCAgBEgRuq4dUDA&ei=-D-uUaH8MJWu4AOZkoFo&ved=0CCgQwg4oAA&biw=1411&bih=682#facrc=_&imgrc=kWCIWjKCS7phAM%3A%3BbMvgIhrKSTveGM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Faspergercafe.files.wordpress.com%252F2012%252F12%252Fhamster-on-treadmill.jpg%253Fw%253D150%2526h%253D93%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Faspergercafe.wordpress.com%252F%3B150%3B94