Getty Images to use selected Flickr Accounts

Covey

Unclear as to how it will work payment wise, but interesting nontheless.

T.

http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Flickr-Getty-Partnership

Paulw

Interesting.

I'd say that Getty will start harvesting photos under CC first, and initially ignore Copyright images. So, to them, it will be almost free images.

Fajitas!

Undoubtably, as Paul said, they'll get what free images they can first.

I hope people read up on their CC rights fairly fast.

shepthedog

Seems another step by flickr away from meeting the needs of their customers to just plain money making greed..

It would be a shame if flickr looses its appeal although it would appear a number of people have fallen out of love with it already...
I am sure we can all wait with baited breath for the email from getty to arrive, offering us thousands..

Covey

Paulw wrote: »

Interesting.

I'd say that Getty will start harvesting photos under CC first, and initially ignore Copyright images. So, to them, it will be almost free images.

Probably.

It seems the top agencies have been badly hit by the change in the photo industry. Alamy not so long ago opened their Microstock section!

decsramble

Paulw wrote: »

Interesting.

I'd say that Getty will start harvesting photos under CC first, and initially ignore Copyright images. So, to them, it will be almost free images.

Plus reading the article they get the nice bonus of:

"Getty Images will be the exclusive commercial rights manager of the photos selected to become part of the collection".

So if you have a photo they like and you agree to let them add it to their collection do you loose the rights to sell it yourself?

Paulw

decsramble wrote: »

Plus reading the article they get the nice bonus of:

"Getty Images will be the exclusive commercial rights manager of the photos selected to become part of the collection".

So if you have a photo they like and you agree to let them add it to their collection do you loose the rights to sell it yourself?

Certainly looks that way. But, you would be "selling" the image to Getty in the first place (unless you're using CC).

Covey

Paulw wrote: »

Certainly looks that way. But, you would be "selling" the image to Getty in the first place (unless you're using CC).

I doubt you'd be selling the images to Getty, but rather granting them exclusive commercial selling rights for a period, maybe renewable.

Lets face it, for the correct image, and in this case it's their opinion, they'll probably sell a multiple of what you can sell as an individual.

T.

Paulw

Covey wrote: »

I doubt you'd be selling the images to Getty, but rather granting them exclusive commercial selling rights for a period, maybe renewable.

Lets face it, for the correct image, and in this case it's their opinion, they'll probably sell a multiple of what you can sell as an individual.

T.

Very true. It actually might work out well.

I think with this, tags become a lot more important, to enable proper searching.

Tags, geo-location and such will be used by Getty to find images they may want.