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Getty Images Sued Yet Again For Trying To License Public Domain Images
iStop:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190329/15352641901/getty-images-sued-yet-again-trying-to-license-public-domain-images.shtml
https://www.diyphotography.net/getty-images-sued-again-accused-of-profiting-from-public-domain-images/
SuperPhoto:
Yeah, unfortunately - they are allowed to do that...
When amazon first started becoming *really* popular (about 10/15 years ago) - a bunch of "internet marketers" popped up "reselling" books claiming to be a "new publisher"...
So they went to the gutenberg press (holding of public domain works) - downloaded tens of thousands of books, slapped their name on it as a "publisher", made 1-2 "edits" (i.e., commentary/intro etc on the book so they could claim it as a "new" book) - and essentially profited off of thousands and thousands of other people's hard work...
Video-StockOrg:
--- Quote from: SuperPhoto on April 05, 2019, 08:04 ---Yeah, unfortunately - they are allowed to do that...
When amazon first started becoming *really* popular (about 10/15 years ago) - a bunch of "internet marketers" popped up "reselling" books claiming to be a "new publisher"...
So they went to the gutenberg press (holding of public domain works) - downloaded tens of thousands of books, slapped their name on it as a "publisher", made 1-2 "edits" (i.e., commentary/intro etc on the book so they could claim it as a "new" book) - and essentially profited off of thousands and thousands of other people's hard work...
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With this kinda logic, I can buy a movie, add some of my own shots and resell it as my own work?
Pauws99:
--- Quote from: SuperPhoto on April 05, 2019, 08:04 ---Yeah, unfortunately - they are allowed to do that...
When amazon first started becoming *really* popular (about 10/15 years ago) - a bunch of "internet marketers" popped up "reselling" books claiming to be a "new publisher"...
So they went to the gutenberg press (holding of public domain works) - downloaded tens of thousands of books, slapped their name on it as a "publisher", made 1-2 "edits" (i.e., commentary/intro etc on the book so they could claim it as a "new" book) - and essentially profited off of thousands and thousands of other people's hard work...
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I think its not unknown outside this industry...people like "wordsworth classics" publish out of copyright works from the likes of Dickens. Reading Pickwick Papers at the moment ;-).
SuperPhoto:
--- Quote from: Video-StockOrg on April 05, 2019, 08:33 ---
--- Quote from: SuperPhoto on April 05, 2019, 08:04 ---Yeah, unfortunately - they are allowed to do that...
When amazon first started becoming *really* popular (about 10/15 years ago) - a bunch of "internet marketers" popped up "reselling" books claiming to be a "new publisher"...
So they went to the gutenberg press (holding of public domain works) - downloaded tens of thousands of books, slapped their name on it as a "publisher", made 1-2 "edits" (i.e., commentary/intro etc on the book so they could claim it as a "new" book) - and essentially profited off of thousands and thousands of other people's hard work...
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With this kinda logic, I can buy a movie, add some of my own shots and resell it as my own work?
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If it is in the public domain, or I believe it is 20 years for expired copyrighted works, then yes.
Part of the reasons you have 'oldie' radio stations, because I believe it is after 20 years, then don't have to pay royalties to the artists.
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