If you haven't bought the rights to a Getty image, you can get sued for copyright infringement if you publish it, but they do not make more money depending on if their stuff gets used or shared a lot. Stock images are usually one-time purchases. There's exceptions, but the client (newspaper, ad agency) normally pays a one-time charge (usually in the 400$ range when we're talking Getty), to buy the rights to use the image indefinitely. That price tag makes Getty one of the more expensive stock image libraries out there, libraries like shutterstock have charges way below 100$ / image and iStock is even cheaper than that, but even the costly stock images are still a lot cheaper than having a professional photo shoot, which will always cost you in the thousands of $ at least.
I don't think they'd come after this site for :via-getty: , meme-y stuff should be covered by "fair use" laws in the US, but if you'd put the entire pic that emoji is from in your blog, they could theoretically find it through a webcrawler and send their legal team after you.
is Getty the owner of Getty Images too?
No, but she is related to Via Getty, the infamous January 6 rioter
She's related Via Getty to....?
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really? that guy was a Getty of the rich ass Getty family?
i've been to a Getty gas station and I rank it about a 4/10. Not quite as bad as a Shell, nowhere as good as a Stuckey's.
come to me for more gas station reviews
Which station has the best tasting gas?
I want give my car a little treat but it seems to be allergic to all the sugar I put in the tank.
Petro-Can when they were state-owned. Easy.
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Son of a submariner. Do they make money when we use their stock images?
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If you haven't bought the rights to a Getty image, you can get sued for copyright infringement if you publish it, but they do not make more money depending on if their stuff gets used or shared a lot. Stock images are usually one-time purchases. There's exceptions, but the client (newspaper, ad agency) normally pays a one-time charge (usually in the 400$ range when we're talking Getty), to buy the rights to use the image indefinitely. That price tag makes Getty one of the more expensive stock image libraries out there, libraries like shutterstock have charges way below 100$ / image and iStock is even cheaper than that, but even the costly stock images are still a lot cheaper than having a professional photo shoot, which will always cost you in the thousands of $ at least.
I don't think they'd come after this site for :via-getty: , meme-y stuff should be covered by "fair use" laws in the US, but if you'd put the entire pic that emoji is from in your blog, they could theoretically find it through a webcrawler and send their legal team after you.