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Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
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Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#92They can't change licensing for images that are already in use under Unsplash current agreement, can they?
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.
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#93Apologies if it’s super obvious to the rest of the people here, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what Unsplash offers? It’s not at all clear from the website, at least to me. Not intended as an attack, more as a PSA to make your purpose extremely obvious for the dumb people like me :)
They launched in 2013 as a website for high quality copyright- and royalty-free images. The license has changed a few times, which is unfortunate.
There is a bit more on their "about" page (which is hidden in the three-dots-menu) at https://unsplash.com/about
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#94I recently discovered Pexels for anyone looking for other sources after this. https://www.pexels.com
Very slick, and fast. But how do they pay for the site? There are no ads and no monetization I could find. The claim 4 billion image views a month, that has to cost them some bandwidth...
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#95Apologies if it’s super obvious to the rest of the people here, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what Unsplash offers? It’s not at all clear from the website, at least to me. Not intended as an attack, more as a PSA to make your purpose extremely obvious for the dumb people like me :)
They launched in 2013 as a website for high quality copyright- and royalty-free images. The license has changed a few times, which is unfortunate. There is a bit more on their "about" page (which is hidden in the three-dots-menu) at https://unsplash.com/about
Ooooh that’s why I couldn’t find it, thanks!
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#96Potentially unpopular opinion: Good. I am tired of people just putting large images into their websites where the main image is barely relevant to the rest of the page. It was sloppy and lazy, like modern day clip art. And if someone really wants images, there are paid services like envato that are at least somewhat sustainable. These solutions are really affordable now and they've got very decent licensing terms.
You prefer walls of text, with nothing else?
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#97Because of course it is.
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#98Has anyone made a complete archive of Unsplash, so that at least when Getty shut it down ("in order to serve customers metter by focusing on our core business") the images that have already been uploaded there will remain available?
Excellent idea. I'd be curious to see what the current compressed database size is... Their (wonderful and brief) license does prohibits "the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service", so this would have to be a personal archive.
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.pexels.com/ is another similar site, owned by Canva which seems to have kept its quality through the years.
Pexels is the best community for people who want to share their photos/videos (CC0). It's the worst community for monetising that in any way.
> 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.
Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
#100This reminds me of 500px. I used to be a huge fan of 500px. It was the most beautiful photography site on the internet, designed with attention to every tiny detail. It allowed you to share your photos under a CC license, presented them beautifully and had fantastic curated feeds with photos by fantastic photographers. In 2018 they were acquired by an investor company and partnered exclusively with Getty. As a contri…
It just reaffirms that one should not put all money on one horse, and to keep a copy of all of your work under your own management. With photography that's manageable, with e.g. youtube that can become challenging if you're a prolific video maker (especially nowadays with 4K, even 8K video footage). Anyway, always have an exit.
I’m not sure I follow? Storing a rendered final copy of your work is not prohibitively expensive given the cost of local storage, and is small in comparison to the raw footage which most creators presumably don’t just delete?