Show Posts
1
Getty Images Letter Forum / Getty and the Stone Collection
« on: February 14, 2012, 02:30:45 PM »
Does anyone know if the "Stone Collection", which I understand from this website was acquired by Getty in 2008, was ever licensed in any other way prior to 2008?
To make a long story short, my images came from an outside web designer in July 2008; they are now included in the "Stone Collection". Getty is pursuing this with me; I'd like to know if Getty actually has the right to go after me on this or could the images have been legally obtained under a different license prior to Getty's acquisition, for example, if the original photographer licensed them in some other method prior to 2008.
The design shop cannot figure out where their designer got the images back in 2008, so that avenue is a dead-end for me. I wonder if it is possible that they got them from a stock photo site or CD that was perhaps correctly licensed in 2008.
The images that the designer provided did not have any watermarking on them, yet the images from the Getty site do have watermarking, so I believe that the images provided to me did not actually come from Getty, they instead came from another source.
Thanks,
Ralph
To make a long story short, my images came from an outside web designer in July 2008; they are now included in the "Stone Collection". Getty is pursuing this with me; I'd like to know if Getty actually has the right to go after me on this or could the images have been legally obtained under a different license prior to Getty's acquisition, for example, if the original photographer licensed them in some other method prior to 2008.
The design shop cannot figure out where their designer got the images back in 2008, so that avenue is a dead-end for me. I wonder if it is possible that they got them from a stock photo site or CD that was perhaps correctly licensed in 2008.
The images that the designer provided did not have any watermarking on them, yet the images from the Getty site do have watermarking, so I believe that the images provided to me did not actually come from Getty, they instead came from another source.
Thanks,
Ralph