How to use Getty's vast collection of newly free pictures on your website

March 06, 2014

Faced with insurmountable piracy of its product, one of the world's foremost image repositories is trying a radical new way to convert pirates into licensees. Getty Images recently launched a new program that allows anyone to embed a wide variety of the stock photo agency's images into their websites for the low, low price of absolutely free.The new program comes with several caveats, however. Use of Getty's photos online must be for non-commercial use, and the embed code includes credit and a link back to the original source. The company may also one day choose to include ads with its photo embeds. (Hey, photographers need to eat too.)Getty decided to try out giving away its images for free to non-commercial websites because it simply couldn't stem the tide of infringement, the agency told The British Journal of Photography. Instead of paying for the image, website owners would simply save an image found on a paying customer's site where the Getty watermark would be removed.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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