On 26/02/2008, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
Getty supplies high-quality, color-corrected, print-ready images to risk-averse commercial publishers. They are looking for actionable assurances that all of the copyright, model rights, and other restrictions have been cleared on the work they are purchasing.
Pity about their disclaimer ;-) OTOH, they are taking actual money for it.
Commons is a very long way from having the same kind of impact (or even really competing in the same space) as a commercial image distributor like Getty.
Just as wide availability of good cheap digital cameras and an Internet to put pictures from them on doesn't compete in the same space as professional photographers, except of course it's trashing their business.
- d.