"Facing tough competition in the market for pictures used online,
Getty Images has devised a new licencing model - and photographers
don't like it, reports Diane Smyth.

"Groups representing more than 12,000 professional photographers are
urging Getty Images to drop rights-managed images from its new $49
'web use' licence.

"The offer, launched on 11 September, features images from virtually
all of Getty's collections at 72dpi for just $49, or £39 in the UK.
Royalty-free images have already been made available for one-year
periods under the new licence, but Getty plans to add rights-ready and
rights-managed images in the coming weeks, plans which photographers
and their representatives have met with outrage.

"The UK's Association of Photographers has joined with the Stock
Artists Alliance, the American Society of Media Photographers, the
Advertising Photographers of America, the Editorial Photographers and
the Canadian Association of Photographers to write to Getty, urging
the organisation to drop right-managed and rights-ready collections
from the web licence deal."


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