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Getty Images Letter Forum / Confused on Who Getty Targets and Who They Ignore?
« on: October 27, 2017, 08:09:04 PM »
I remember about 10 years ago, I used an image without permission and received a simple takedown notice like a week later, and never did it again.
Fast forward to the present, one of my main competitors runs a news website that uses images from the Getty website. I've seen galleries where the guy has as many as 30 photos - and he's done this practice for at least 6 or 7 years.
Over the years, I would estimate that they have thousands of photos that originated from Getty.
Speaking to one of his managing editors who just left him, they have never even received a second look from Getty or any copyright attorney.
I just don't get it, as several webmasters I know received threatening emails or letters within weeks or even months of using some copyrighted photo.
However, I was told by the editor that left, that the website in question DOES buy some Getty images legally, but only a handful a year.
I almost wonder if Getty's attorney runs the website's contact email in the database, sees them as a registered customer and leaves it at that.
Or maybe they go after certain kinds of images, as just about everyone I know that was contacted by their legal team, was using some form of stock image. The website in question uses images of Trump, Kardashians, etc.
Fast forward to the present, one of my main competitors runs a news website that uses images from the Getty website. I've seen galleries where the guy has as many as 30 photos - and he's done this practice for at least 6 or 7 years.
Over the years, I would estimate that they have thousands of photos that originated from Getty.
Speaking to one of his managing editors who just left him, they have never even received a second look from Getty or any copyright attorney.
I just don't get it, as several webmasters I know received threatening emails or letters within weeks or even months of using some copyrighted photo.
However, I was told by the editor that left, that the website in question DOES buy some Getty images legally, but only a handful a year.
I almost wonder if Getty's attorney runs the website's contact email in the database, sees them as a registered customer and leaves it at that.
Or maybe they go after certain kinds of images, as just about everyone I know that was contacted by their legal team, was using some form of stock image. The website in question uses images of Trump, Kardashians, etc.