Pin A Getty Image: Getty Receives Compensation

Posted on 10/28/2013 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (1)

Getty Images has done a deal with Pinterest that will track the use of any of the 80 million photos and illustrations on Gettyimages.com whenever they are posted on the digital scrapbooking site. (A little over 7 million of those photos are on the Creative section of the site.)

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Paul Melcher Posted Oct 28, 2013
Jim,
You have to be very careful here. Pinterest is not paying a licensing fee. It is only paying for the right to access the image corresponding information (metadata) via the Getty Api. The distinction is very important for Pinterest because if they were paying a licensing fee, it would open the doors for all copyright owners to ask for same.

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