Unsplash must be the company that removes watermarks. Thank God, maybe they'll finally help Getty Images remove those pesky watermarks for them!
Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
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Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#262A very sad day for me. Should I expect a refund on my crowdfunded support? With interest would be a small consolation. #justSayin
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As a site, when you adopt a CC0-esque license, what happens is other sites will scrape you but not allow you to scrape in exchange. You start losing out on SEO rankings, and then contributors, and finally content. This also makes it harder to invest in usability features like curation and search (photo search is complicated!). I’d love to understand any ideas on how to create open CC0 aggregators without the game the…
My earliest exposure to Unsplash was wallpaper apps, and that's certainly the case with many of my friends. I didn't even make the association between Unsplash and stock photography until very recently. My fiance had Giphy installed on her phone when I first met her, which surprised me because I considered Giphy as little more than a Reddit gif host. She uses a lot of reaction gifs in her messages. A search engine is…
Giphy, incase you’re not aware, is now owned by Facebook..far worse than Getty when it comes to data privacy.
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> 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...
Yup, this is also why Wikimedia Commons doesn't allow Pexels as a source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bad_sources#Pexel...
The link you provide says Wikimedia Commons doesn't allow Pexels because of the non-commercial clause. It says nothing about the morality clause.
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#265> Unsplash will continue to operate as a standalone brand and division of Getty Images. The entire Unsplash team will be staying and building Unsplash in the direction we have been. The main difference now is we have access to the resources and experience of Getty Images to help accelerate our plans to create the world’s most useful visual asset library. Sounds so familiar. How many times have we heard this one? How…
For a historical record, see https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
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Whether they can or not is less relevant. Getty has already demonstrated that it is willing to sell free works to people who don't realize they can get it for free (legally). I'm not even talking about where they take other people's works and illegally resell it as their own... Getty, if judged by their past behaviors, is an evil company.
> Getty has already demonstrated that it is willing to sell free works to people who don't realize they can get it for free (legally). It seems plausible to me that there are some customers whose legal teams would be very uneasy about anything free. For those customers, Getty’s name and “reputability” may be the service they are paying for.
This is essentially the business model of open source companies. Free is a very hazy concept, and there's money in providing clarity.
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That’s the business of stock photos. Unsplash managed to stick around because they provided free high quality images that were more “real” looking than stock photos. It was supported by ads, which I’m sure kept the site running but when Getty knocks on your door and offers to buy you out ... it’s hard to say no. The cycle will continue. In its place there will be a new Unsplash which will offer the same + a bit more…
To be clear, Unsplash never provided images: they created a website that accepted user submissions, that's it. All content in Unsplash is user generated. What bothers me about this sale is exactly this: Unsplash cashed in on their user submissions without guaranteeing their users (and use!) would be protected and perpetuated. This is equivalent of me building a little lemonade stand, inviting a neighbor that makes a…
I wrote a bunch of articles for a community blog/magazine a while back that had a lot of others in the community doing the same thing. Then the "owner" turned around and sold it to some nameless person that wanted to profit from it.
She patted herself on the back and moved onto building another community thing. I removed my articles and moved on.
It's a real shame, she's very talented, but I struggle to engage with any of her work now because I keep looking for where she's going to try and profit from community participation.
I wish her no ill, but it was a reminder to not treat things as a not-for-profit if they don't have clear governance to back that up.
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s the business of stock photos. Unsplash managed to stick around because they provided free high quality images that were more “real” looking than stock photos. It was supported by ads, which I’m sure kept the site running but when Getty knocks on your door and offers to buy you out ... it’s hard to say no. The cycle will continue. In its place there will be a new Unsplash which will offer the same + a bit more…
To be clear, Unsplash never provided images: they created a website that accepted user submissions, that's it. All content in Unsplash is user generated. What bothers me about this sale is exactly this: Unsplash cashed in on their user submissions without guaranteeing their users (and use!) would be protected and perpetuated. This is equivalent of me building a little lemonade stand, inviting a neighbor that makes a…
The original image licenses still apply even through an acquisition, no? With regards to perpetuated, we can stick them in the Internet Archive.
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#269What are some alternatives to Unsplash that provide very high quality photos, for when Getty inevitably ruins this site too?
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#270”Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today’s richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.“ –Mark Getty, founder of Getty Images https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Getty
My manager, who is American, once made a comparison that completely blew my mind: we laugh at native Americans handing over their land without really understanding that they're getting screwed in the transaction, and yet we just hand over our personal data to Google and Facebook without a second thought. We barely even have a concept of data ownership. –u/henrebotha
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