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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Online portfolio with pieces that contain images

« on: October 05, 2010, 08:51:10 PM »

Looking over the license verbiage on Getty's site, it sounds like the issue here may be that it was a rights-managed image (which I did not know...it was just one of several I was given to choose from for the project). Which could explain why they flagged me on that image, but not the other one on the page which was likely from them as well. I have emailed them and they say they should get back to me within a few days...nothing yet, alas.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Online portfolio with pieces that contain images

« on: September 30, 2010, 09:49:21 PM »

I got the infamous letter today (only demanding $600!) for a picture in my portfolio of a brochure that I designed for an ad agency some years ago. Of course the photo was bought and paid for by the agency or their client, for use in that brochure. They say I am using the photo for promotional purposes. This is a scaled down picture of a spread in the brochure, and one of the images on the page is the image in question. I'm wondering if the copyright still applies when it is one step removed like this. I'm not using the photo for promotional purposes directly...I'm using a picture of the brochure for promotional purposes. And the brochure includes the photo.

If I have to pay an additional license for every photo in every piece that's shown in my portfolio, then I can't afford to have an online portfolio...more than 50% of my print work includes stock photos, either ones that the client paid for and supplied or ones that I purchased through iStock for the client's use.

As an analogy: if I'm a landscape photographer, and my portfolio includes a photo that has a billboard in the view, and the billboard has a photo from Getty, would the landscape photographer have to pay to include that image?