On 26/02/2008, Robert Rohde <rarohde(a)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.