Getty Just Made Its Pictures Free to Use Online. Are Books or Movies Next?
THE WASHINGTON POST
By Caitlin Dewey
CALIFORNIA---Common sense dictates that if you can’t beat them, you might as well join in. But by making 35 million images free and available to the Internet public with an embed code, Getty Images is doing one better: If you can’t beat them, rechannel whatever they’re doing so that it benefits you! The image service announced Wednesday night that the bulk of its massive collection of professional photos will now be available for free to personal blogs and other non-commercial sites that embed the photos through a code similar to the one already used for YouTube videos and tweets. (You won’t find any Getty embeds in this post because it’s not a personal site — we still license the old-fashioned way.) [link]
By Caitlin Dewey
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| Ashes Are Drawn on Foreheads on Ash Wednesday (Getty) |
