Getty Images

Best selling photo app I've found, even though I haven't sold my photos yet. But I am proud to be able to enter and upload photos of my personal work here.

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Steals pictures from artists

High quality images exactly what I need for my project. Thanks

A bank of images to avoid
I just definitively closed my account following the sale by Getty images of my entire portfolio over a single day, i.e. 2850 photos which brought me a total of $ 11: yes, I mean $ 11 for 2850 photos, or a little less than $ 0.004 per photo !!!!!!
It is simply shameful. Was it explained to me that they were sold to a search engine? I do not believe it at all and even if it were true, you could at least question me to know if I will agree to sell my entire portfolio for this misery …

Absolute shambles of a company. My business pays for one of the highest subscriptions each year, in excess of 拢5K. For the last two years, they misquoted and then charged more. This year I had to chase them about renewing, they eventually sent a confirmation email and then it didn't renew. So we didn't have access to the files we needed, on deadline, to our biggest customer. Completely disorganised and unreliable.

Copyright N*zis, Thieves stealing images and inundating google with watermarked images, damaging innovation and global creativity.
Greedy, immoral, disgusting. In other words, F*** Getty images and its hoards of inhuman lawyers.

I found one of my images being used as Getty Images place holder on Google, with gettyimages written across it. I have no idea how they got it, this image has never been online. When I emailed them to ask if they would like to do some legitimate business with me they told me to apply via their contributor app, when I did so it just crashed and then refused to open again, repeatedly!!
When I contact them about it they just lied and evaded.
This is a dishonest company. Do not attempt to do business with them. They did not get to be the biggest by honest means

some sort of scam company claiming pictures as their own which were never identified as such and using intimidating debt collection agencies to try and extract a huge fee for a tiny image with no hint of origin. Tried speaking to them but obvious they have no interest in a reputation.

My son did a google search on his name today. Up popped a picture of his little sister he took 2 years ago on vacation. It is on a site called Getty images image number 755741375. It is being sold!!! My baby鈥檚 picture is being sold to whomever wants it! These were my sons personal pictures that were stolen off of some social media site!

Bad service
I found my picture on another webpage, It was edited a little and then put on sale again, I grabbed the owner of the page and said he bought the picture, but I had not received payment a for resale.
The buyers of the image he had an expensive subscription so he had not done anything wrong- he said, It was hard to grab some at istock/Getty Images which could help me, in that connection I terminate my profile and my picture. When I finally got hold of them, I received this mail.
Since your account was terminated we don't represent this image anymore, we have no legal basis to demand payment for an unauthorized use. 🙁

Won't cough up the receipt for my pumpaudio.com purchase (which they bought)… sick of dealing with their bad customer interface!

Scam business – one of their photographers stole my wedding picture (my own face) and is selling it as his own picture ! I write to GettyImage, no response in 45 days. I write again, no response again for other 10 days. Shaddy business, Getty Images do NOT verify the pictures of their photographers are those of their photographers.

PS. Your answer, Getty Image, does not answer my question – as you do NOT answer your e-mails. I write several e-mails and you do not answer. You do not answer forms you receive via web, nor e-mails you receive, and you do not check your contributors who are stealing images of other people – all that for money. You accept contributors with only 7 images, all of them stolen. You could check via google where the image is first posted, but no, you put images in your "catalogue" just like that – no verification !

Thief is getting money, Getty is getting money also, and the victim is just that. A victim. Shame on you for not checking photos you receive and you do not react to complaints. Shame, shame on you. Very bad business.

Be warned. Do not buy credits as they will make it the subscription withdrawal amount from your bank account and it is impossible to cancel or change they subscription, they have full control of your credit card, not you

i had never even heard of gettyimages until i saw they were the reason i could no longer view full images.if people were using it to get images from here you could have had that link go to a blank page like other websites have done, not make google get rid of the feature all together and ruin it for everyone else. you guys are truly the worst and i will NEVER find myself using this website because of this garbage. telling everyone i know how terrible this website is too, while im at it. maybe if yall go out of business well get the feature back.

When I was searching for any images on google, I've noticed 2 buttons were missing. I looked it up and they are the one to blame for removing the "View Image" and "Search by image" buttons on Google.

Many news sites mentions gettyimages doing this because their images gets stolen (a.k.a pirated) or that users access the content without the ads.

2 reason why these reasons to remove the buttons are pathetic:

-The image displayed on google images are basically hotlinks to the original source (which is how google image main function), thus users can still pirate using google images by right-clicking on the image and using browser addons. And no, asking google to remove rightclick won't work, I already explained that sites like Benitaepstein did that and nobody would ever wanted to visit a website that have DRM.

-You know, people can still evade ads not only by direct accessing the image (as in, going to the image's URL itself), but also (obviously) using ad blockers. Have you ever herd of using ad block detection?

This is the stupidest move I've ever seen. It is nothing more than adding more clicks to use a great image service; downgrading google images. Why can't they just have images that are full resolution behind a robots.txt or 403 forbidden on the actual image and the watermarked downgraded version available for public? And yes, I said "google images", not specifically images from gettyimages displayed on Google that the buttons were kicked.

This isn't the only turd they drop, there is one that is still coming out of this company's arse (and it's a long one that clogged the toilet that even a plunger couldn't fix): Threat letters. I have mentioned on this article that this company complains about it's images being stolen and they go out of their way of screwing legitimate things over. They have a long history of sending "demand letters" coercing and even intimidating many site owners that their users is uploading images without their permission. I said demand letters, not DMCA notices, meaning they do not use takedown notices kindly asking them to remove the content without any liability incurred. This is basically the ransom version SOPA/PIPA, these enforcement that goes against the safe harbor liability limitations provisions.

Totally not worth to even go to their site (other than to visit their site with maximum ad blocking protection (to make them lose revenue), page source editing prank to make people think gettyimages is even [email protected], and sending hate mail to the CEO). After giving google image users and web owners the middle finger for allowing image piracy, this company should be publicly shamed by all users on the internet.

2019/3/12 update: Oh look: https://torrentfreak.com/100s-of-rightsholder-groups-urge-eu-parliament-to-adopt-the-copyright-directive-190312/ (I cannot use certain characters such as left/right quotation marks here thanks to this site's text handling system):

[The full list of supporters includes popular names such as Thomson Reuters, The Independent, the Association of Independent Music, *Getty Images*, PRS for Music, SACEM, Eurocinema, and many, many others.]

Thats right, Just as I was expecting. If Gettyimages was in the US during 2011-12 they WOULD support SOPA. If you are too lazy on what is Article 13 in the EU, in simple words, its a "Notice and Staydown" provision aimed at crippling the safe harbor provision. Sites will be held liable if an infringing material happens to be re-uploaded after being taken down. This explains why people are complaining that this would lead to automated system to detect a match like youtube's ContentID system, but takes down content instead of monetization.

This site IS the benchmark. Intended for the professional only, it has every tool you need in order to search, license and manage your acquisitions. A library unequalled on the planet, it contains every genre, from every age back to the first photography, and even further back to paintings and illustrations, in order to cover nearly every topic on the planet.

I personally find this site pretty safe to visit, but their licensing is left lot more to be desired. For me one of the most glaring example is the work "'Boers and Kaffirs', Cape Colony, South Africa, 19th century." drawn by Yvan Pranishnikoff, which they placed a watermark and require more than $200 for the license for this image. While the truth is that this image is stripped off from a French journal "Le Tour du Monde" (published 1881, Issue 42, p. 257), which is available for free download (as long as for non-commercial purposes) from the digital library "Gallica" of National Library of France. Does not seemed very ethical for me.

great database, i find what i need each time I use this website

They have a ton of images and they recently altered their policies.

READ THIS ARTICLE:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/why-getty-going-free-is-such-a-big-deal-explained-in-getty-images/284264/

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READ THAT ARTICLE

useful website for designer to get free images for designing

At times there is SOME adult content not always

great source of images

A large source of images that the media uses a lot.

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