The world’s largest photo service just made its pictures free to use – Getty Images is betting its business on embeddable photos..
Assuming you have a website or blog, this is a BIG deal… The above photo will give you a good idea of how the images will appear.. Get use to it.. cause you’ll see a lot more of ‘em on MAGIC NEWS…
If you go to the Getty Images website, you’ll see millions of images, all watermarked. There are more than a hundred years of photography here, from FDR on the campaign trail to last Sunday’s Oscars, all stamped with the same transparent square placard reminding you that you don’t own the rights. If you want Getty to take off the watermark, you’ll have to pay for it.
Starting now, that’s going to change. Getty Images is dropping the watermark for the bulk of its collection, in exchange for an open-embed program that will let users drop in any image they want, as long as the service gets to append a footer at the bottom of the picture with a credit and link to the licensing page. For a small-scale WordPress blog with no photo budget, this looks an awful lot like free stock imagery…
Read more at….
http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/5/5475202/getty-images-made-its-pictures-free-to-use