Getty (and Corbis too) also go around slapping their own copyrights on public domain photographs held at the Library of Congress. Their attack hacks threaten anyone who unknowingly use the photos, and I’ve had to point out to them repeatedly that the provenance is actually NARA-Still Picture Branch and not Getty, at which point their lawyers suddenly shut up.
> Getty (and Corbis too) also go around slapping their own copyrights on public domain photographs held at the Library of Congress. Their attack hacks threaten anyone who unknowingly use the photos, and I’ve had to point out to them repeatedly that the provenance is actually NARA-Still Picture Branch and not Getty, at which point their lawyers suddenly shut up
It doesn’t bother me one bit when guys like this end up having to close doors because of their own sleaze tactics. Of couse they always start up again under another name but it costs ‘em to do so.