Photographers Hate Getty Images's Plan to Give Away Their Work - Businessweek

Getty’s decision to let anyone with a website or social media presence freely embed photographs for non-commercial use was bound to rub photographers the wrong way. Sure enough, trade groups representing people who try to make a living snapping shutters say they are at work on an alternative way to compensate photographers as their images spread around the Internet because, in their view, Getty sure isn’t going to do it.

“The person who owns the copyright—the contributor, the one whose creativity made the image—is not getting anything from this. Getty is,” says Michael Greco, chair of the advocacy committee for American Photographic Artists, a national organization for professional photographers. Greco, who personally specializes in celebrity portraiture, was disillusioned with Getty before this week’s announcement and had removed his photographs from its library in favor of negotiating licenses, one by one. * Source