Getty Images is making 35 million images available for public use on social media sites like Twitter, Tumblr and non-commercial blog sites. The image agency has always charged a fee for the rights to use a Getty Photo. The decision came last week after the stock photo agency noticed its images were increasingly appearing on social media and blogs by people that hadn't paid for the photo rights. In fact, many of their photographs could easily be pulled up by search engine image searches and even on news media websites.
The available images will be free and legal for non-commercial use and the website now offers an embedding code (similar to youtube) for the use of their images. The eligible images also come with buttons for Tumblr and Twitter, where a link to the image can be shared.
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