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Getty Images Letter Forum / Who can I get images from?

« on: December 28, 2012, 11:50:35 AM »

I recently had a letter from Getty which I have dealt with. So my question is: when I want to get decent images, who is a reputable company that is known to have the appropriate licences (so that I don't have to then deal with Getty et al. again), and has the ethics to not use extortion type tactics for alleged infringers? Do we have a good company list? I want to reward companies who play fair.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Letter help: Fair Use

« on: December 20, 2012, 05:30:25 PM »

I had a single allegedly infringing image on my blog that I received a standard notice/demand for payment from Getty. The image was a part of the book cover from Freakonomics (it was clearly still the book cover as it has a sticker "Now a major movie" visible). The article on my blog is (now with no image) a quick review of the movie of the same name. They are claiming copyright not on the book cover but on the apple that's actually an orange (search Google images for Freakonomics). This is clear from their version of the copyrighted image which is not the book cover.

I would hope that this falls under fair use. I searched the forum but did not find a similar issue before. Any thoughts on the wording of a letter back to them?

Many thanks to the authors of this website and the forum users. Needless to say I had that sinking feeling many of us seem to have experienced before...

Edit: Just looked again - the sticker actually says "New York Times Bestseller"