Photographer Files $1 Billion Suit Against Getty for Licensing Her Public Domain Images
Wow. Getty was selling public domain photos to everyone, including the photog herself.
Getty was notifying people with the images that they must pay money to keep using them (on their own web sites, etc.). So the copyright owner, Carol Highsmith, gets a $120 bill for using her own picture on her own web site.
Highsmith had donated the pictures to the library of congress for use by the general public at no charge.
Getty says, no, we were simply providing a service by selling these photos to people.
You say “potato”, I say “Stolen Tomato”.
Oh, by the way,
Highsmith is a really, really good photographer.
