WARNING: Getty Images Cracking Down!

Cole

Excerpt from another site:
Just a warning to everyone that may be using or has used unauthorized images from Getty. They are making a big sweep of sites and sending out bills when they find one of their images being used without permission. They are charging $1,000 USD per image. They are pursuing the site owners for this money. They are not sending out warnings. They do expect to get paid. If you have unauthorized Getty images, take them down.

A fellow designer just had 2 of his clients busted. One for $2,000 and the other for $4,000. The client wants the designer to pay since they weren't aware of him grabbing the images from Getty. Getty's stance is that it's the clients fault. Either way, not good business.

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ProWallGuy

My stupid question of the day. Who or what is Getty?

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Teetorbilt

Some dude in the oil biz.

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Nathan

They are a massive stock photo company: gettyimages.com

istockphoto.com is the way to go for cheap images though.

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mickeyco

gettyimages.com

Getty Images - the world's leading provider of imagery, film footage and digital services. Royalty-free and rights-managed stock photography, video footage....................

I've hit on this before, many web site designers/developers use images that they didn't buy (lifted somewhere on the internet), some templates that you purchase come with images that you actually have to pay for if you use them. It's best to use original graphics, your own pictures or ones that you purchased.

mickeyco

Sorry, I didn't reload the page before responding and missed your post, I agree that istockphoto.com is a great resource for reasonably priced images.

On another note the pictures have digital watermarks that are found by software that searches the internet (very quickly) for them, so they don't actually have to have a person look at every website on the internet to find them. In other words the chances of getting caught are not as remote as one would think.

ProWallGuy

Thanks for that, you just answered my second stupid question.

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N.E.Bldg&Rest.LLC

How many of us have Getty images for an icon

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PressurePros

This sounds a little hokey to me. How could they possibly track that? Let's say my graphic designer used a getty image as part of a graphic he did for me and didn't pay for the rights to that picture. Now lets say some hacks are getting paid to scan for Getty images. There are 50 million websites out there and Getty has tens of thousands of images. Unless someone used the getty image exactly as it was named on the website how could they find your graphic? On top of that, how would they then determine if the image was paid for or not?

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Dustball

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_watermarking

The digital watermark would be encoded into the image file itself. I would assume they'd have a program that looks for a certain sequence of bits in the image file that would identify it as theirs.

Cole

I agree, if you didnt rename the image I think they could find it.

If you did rename it, I just dont see how they will be able to trace it.

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PressurePros

Good information Dustball. Thank you. Thats how they can do it then.

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mickeyco

The information is inside the image in code, take a small jpeg and rename the extention to from imagename.jpg to imagename.txt, now open it with notepad, what you're going to see is something like this:

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inside this is coded all the information that can be tracked with software similar to what google uses to read your website, so it really doesn't matter what you name the file.

Below is a screen capture of some of the info that is coded into images decoded:

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Cole

Yeah I realize that now.

I posted my reply at the same time dustball did.

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Mike Finley

Man, the things you can learn hanging around with a bunch of dumb contractor slobs!

We've got some smart cookies running around here!

mickeyco

Sorry, I have got to start reading the entire post, my bad.

Cole

No problem!

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Ron The Plumber

If your domain servers allows ip of domain blocking, bock there domain from your site.

AAPaint

LoL!! They won't find anything that way.

Then again, the program doesn't have to run on a server traceable to them either.

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