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<blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 105809" data-attributes="member: 9521"><p>See the original article <a href="http://www.popphoto.com/news/2013/01/getty-signs-deal-google-gives-photographers-pittance" target="_blank">HERE</a>, I would also suggest we all take their suggestion and insure none of our photographs appear in their Google Docs library!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Getty Signs Deal With Google, Gives Photographers Pittance</strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><em>How much do you think a photographer deserves for having their work plastered all over Google Docs?</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><img src="http://www.popphoto.com/files/imagecache/article_main_photo/_images/201301/screen_shot_2013-01-17_at_7.57.56_am.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">No one gets into stock photography expecting mammoth payouts, but a new revelation about a deal between Getty and Google fired up a number of photographers about just how little they're getting .<a href="http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/01/16/getty-hands-google-users-free-commercial-images-photographers-get-12/" target="_blank">APhotoEditor has discovered</a> that when Google expanded <a href="https://plus.google.com/+GoogleDrive/posts/S7uBsLpJiKY" target="_blank">the number of stock images that Google users could add to Google Drive documents</a>, they did so through a deal with Getty.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">In December of last year, Google added some 5,000 images that could be added to documents and presentations created through Google Drive (once known as Google Docs). These images contain no copyright information, metadata, or links back to the original photographers.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Over <a href="http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=350491&page=1" target="_blank">two</a> <a href="http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=350439&page=1" target="_blank">large</a> threads on iStockPhoto it has come to light that these images were put together from a license with Getty without informing any of the photographers. In exchange for unlimited use in one of the biggest free services on the internet — how much do you think the photographers got paid? $6 or $12.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Unsurprisingly, this has raised the ire of many Getty contributors, who have <a href="http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=350613&page=1" target="_blank">made their displeasure known</a>. It's not just about the low payout they're getting, but the fact that they feel their work is being used without permissiong, passed on for free, and stripped of any attribution. There's even discussion of <a href="http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/01/16/getty-hands-google-users-free-commercial-images-photographers-get-12/#comment-210906" target="_blank">a mass resigning happening on February 2.</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">If you want to see if one of your images is in the Google Drive Stock, <a href="http://kga.me/gds/" target="_blank">this website seems to have most of them.</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave_W, post: 105809, member: 9521"] See the original article [URL="http://www.popphoto.com/news/2013/01/getty-signs-deal-google-gives-photographers-pittance"]HERE[/URL], I would also suggest we all take their suggestion and insure none of our photographs appear in their Google Docs library! [SIZE=4][B]Getty Signs Deal With Google, Gives Photographers Pittance[/B][/SIZE] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial][I]How much do you think a photographer deserves for having their work plastered all over Google Docs?[/I] [CENTER][IMG]http://www.popphoto.com/files/imagecache/article_main_photo/_images/201301/screen_shot_2013-01-17_at_7.57.56_am.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] No one gets into stock photography expecting mammoth payouts, but a new revelation about a deal between Getty and Google fired up a number of photographers about just how little they're getting .[URL="http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/01/16/getty-hands-google-users-free-commercial-images-photographers-get-12/"]APhotoEditor has discovered[/URL] that when Google expanded [URL="https://plus.google.com/+GoogleDrive/posts/S7uBsLpJiKY"]the number of stock images that Google users could add to Google Drive documents[/URL], they did so through a deal with Getty. In December of last year, Google added some 5,000 images that could be added to documents and presentations created through Google Drive (once known as Google Docs). These images contain no copyright information, metadata, or links back to the original photographers. Over [URL="http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=350491&page=1"]two[/URL] [URL="http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=350439&page=1"]large[/URL] threads on iStockPhoto it has come to light that these images were put together from a license with Getty without informing any of the photographers. In exchange for unlimited use in one of the biggest free services on the internet — how much do you think the photographers got paid? $6 or $12. Unsurprisingly, this has raised the ire of many Getty contributors, who have [URL="http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=350613&page=1"]made their displeasure known[/URL]. It's not just about the low payout they're getting, but the fact that they feel their work is being used without permissiong, passed on for free, and stripped of any attribution. There's even discussion of [URL="http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/01/16/getty-hands-google-users-free-commercial-images-photographers-get-12/#comment-210906"]a mass resigning happening on February 2.[/URL] If you want to see if one of your images is in the Google Drive Stock, [URL="http://kga.me/gds/"]this website seems to have most of them.[/URL] [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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