Wasn't Getty responsible for the removal of direct links from Google Images?
As always, with stuff like this: doesn't bode well, hope they don't screw it up, but my expectations are low.
Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
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Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
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> It's the worst community for monetising that in any way. That sounds fantastic, I'll take a look! Edit: It's not CC0 though, right? The Pexels License looks similar to the Unsplash License.
(Disclosure: I work for Canva) You are allowed to do anything with Pexels photos, except 4 conditions listed on the plain English licensing page: https://www.pexels.com/license/ In short, • don’t portray identifiable people in a bad way • don’t sell unaltered, make a change first • don’t imply endorsement • don’t redistribute on other sites. Commercial use is perfectly fine. You don’t need to attribute, but our photo…
> don’t portray identifiable people in a bad way
Not a lawyer, but this is so arbitrary that any sensible company wouldn't touch Pexels. What is considered bad? If the person is put next to some junk food? Cigarettes? An abortion clinic ad? Oil company?
This is the same issue with the No Evil license: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#%22Good,_not...
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
(Disclosure: I work for Canva) You are allowed to do anything with Pexels photos, except 4 conditions listed on the plain English licensing page: https://www.pexels.com/license/ In short, • don’t portray identifiable people in a bad way • don’t sell unaltered, make a change first • don’t imply endorsement • don’t redistribute on other sites. Commercial use is perfectly fine. You don’t need to attribute, but our photo…
> don’t portray identifiable people in a bad way Not a lawyer, but this is so arbitrary that any sensible company wouldn't touch Pexels. What is considered bad? If the person is put next to some junk food? Cigarettes? An abortion clinic ad? Oil company? This is the same issue with the No Evil license: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#%22Good,_not...
If you really need a picture of a human, you could just...get that person's permission instead of whining about free not being "free."
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
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Reading through the press release, this really stood out: > In 2016, we first met the Getty Images team. We weren’t sure they would see the world the same way we did given their business was largely built on licensing. Over years of conversations, however, we learned about the level of respect they had for the Unsplash community and the rights of creators to choose how and where their imagery is made available. While…
> "We were worried about Getty because they're all about copyright, but after talking for years and waiting for our daily uniques to grow, they've agreed to our terms re: valuation." FIFY
> "We were worried that selling are souls to the copyright czars would not be worth it, but after eating in to their business for years they've finally made us an offer we can't refuse."
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
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Those guys were only publishing under the CC license to make a profit (by lawyer/court). I think thats wrong to abuse the CC license for profit this way. Another detail of that scheme: Wikipedia actually does not do (correct) attribution on their site (no attribution next to the images. So if you mirror/copy Wikipedia content, in germany you will be sued by "photographers" who won't enforce their attribution on wikip…
If you have JavaScript enabled, attribution is displayed when you view the full-size image. If you don't have JavaScript enabled, it's still displayed when you view the full-size image, but it loads a different page to do so.
Is it technically legal to show thumbnails without attribution?
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
> don’t portray identifiable people in a bad way Not a lawyer, but this is so arbitrary that any sensible company wouldn't touch Pexels. What is considered bad? If the person is put next to some junk food? Cigarettes? An abortion clinic ad? Oil company? This is the same issue with the No Evil license: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#%22Good,_not...
If you really need a picture of a human, you could just...get that person's permission instead of whining about free not being "free."
I don't see it as whining. These companies are in the business of providing photos for people to be able to use. If their TOS is so vague that one simply cannot use any photos without knowing what the TOS allows or not - then the core purpose of the company has failed.
If FB and others are to be used as an example, these TOS are written vague and broad on purpose.
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#217Loved reading about their journey on HN. Here's a 5-year-old thread about their costs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11519085 Unfortunately the original link is down (and I could not find an archived version). But here's relevant material from the comments: > $18k is a lot of money to spend each month. Understanding the scale of Unsplash though can help explain the costs. > So at a cost of $18k per month you a…
I don’t mean to rain on their parade, but 30M requests served per month, while sounding really good, translates to 11 requests per second. And maybe 60 requests per second for their 140M API requests. If I were paying $2500 per month for that I’d be a bit sad.
This was around April 18, 2016, when Unsplash was relatively new (Founded in 2013?). I think those numbers were pretty good for that time.
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#218Loved reading about their journey on HN. Here's a 5-year-old thread about their costs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11519085 Unfortunately the original link is down (and I could not find an archived version). But here's relevant material from the comments: > $18k is a lot of money to spend each month. Understanding the scale of Unsplash though can help explain the costs. > So at a cost of $18k per month you a…
I am curious about why they went with Fastly? Doesn't Cloudflare free tier provide caching of images? Worst case scenario, they could use their $20 or $200 tiers if needed?
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172516-U...
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#219Alternatives that I have been using: - https://stocksnap.io - https://www.pexels.com
Hadn't heard of https://stocksnap.io
Checked them out. While their pictures are less "professional" looking, I would actually prefer using them as the pics seem more authentic.
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#220RIP. I'm sure this acquisition will be great for the team but it's pretty obvious Getty will fill the site with tricky sponsored images. They will also likely start fading out new free images until the site is mostly stale or filled with sponsored image links. I could also see them playing around with image licensing so it's less obvious how you can use them. Welp, I guess there's always Pexels.
They already have tricky sponsored images on their site. Also their "Brands" ads: