Messages

1

Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty Demand Letter - Rights-Managed Image

« on: December 01, 2016, 08:16:23 AM »

Hey Everyone,
Our company received a Getty demand image for a photo we posted on our company blog. We use a couple of free stock image sites to source free images for the blog since there's no way to recoup the cost of paid imagery, but apparently one of those sites (I'm not sure which since it's no longer there) was hosting an image that Getty owns, and now we're on the hook for it.

Spotted a Picscout in my analytics and decided to check.

Downloaded an image from a popular free image site which licenses the photos as free for any personal and commercial purpose.

I used image reverse and i'm really shocked to find out the photo is from bigst0ckphot0 and f0t0lia.com.

I quickly removed the photo from my website and began to track back my downloads page.

I can confirm it's downloaded from that free website. Still have the record in my download page. The free photo website have since taken down the image as the url page can’t be found.

Any advice is greatly appreciated as they may take legal action.