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Italian court orders Getty to remove all Michelangelo’s David photos or pay €50,000 a day
Feb 5, 2024
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
An Italian court has ordered Getty Images’ Italian website to remove all content depicting Michelangelo’s David. This includes not only photos of the original statue,…
Getty jumps on the generative AI bandwagon
Sep 27, 2023
Alex Baker
It doesn’t seem so long ago that Getty was getting all in a flap and suing Stable Diffusion AI for its unauthorised use of their…
Bria AI and Getty Images collaborate to solve the AI copyright conundrum
Sep 11, 2023
John Aldred
Since its initial public outing, AI imagery has faced many challenges and criticisms. Chief among them is the topic of copyright. Essentially, many AI models…
Getty Images sues Stable Diffusion makers over “copyright violations”
Jan 18, 2023
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Stock photo platform Getty Images has sued Stability AI, the maker of AI image generator Stable Diffusion. Getty alleges that the tech company unlawfully scraped…
Stock photography sites shut down AI images as Getty and Unsplash implement outright bans
Sep 22, 2022
John Aldred
It looks like the photography world is starting to get a little sick of AI-generated imagery. Or at least, much of it is sick of…
Unsplash to be acquired by Getty Images, but photos remain free
Mar 30, 2021
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Unsplash has announced that it’s becoming a part of Getty Images. Although the company is being acquired, it doesn’t mean that it will disappear. It…
Getty Images is dumping rights-managed “creative” image licenses to go exclusively royalty-free
Nov 8, 2019
John Aldred
Getty Images has announced that after poring over sales data and customer research, they’re ditching the rights-managed licensing options and going over to royalty-free for…
Community fights against removing View Image button from Google search
Feb 20, 2018
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
You’ve probably noticed by now that Google has removed the “View Image” button from its Image Search. The decision helped Google to settle its dispute…
US District Court dismisses Carol Highsmith’s $1 billion copyright claim against Getty
Nov 23, 2016
John Aldred
Although some quite enjoyed the idea of seeing Getty get a good legal spanking for once, that is not how things are turning out. US…
Getty use underwater robots to photograph Olympic swimming events
Aug 11, 2016
John Aldred
The technological advancements that can be made in just four short years are amazing. 11 time Olympic photographer Al Bello is taking advantage of that fact…