{"id":2546,"date":"2014-03-06T09:29:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T23:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2014-03-06T09:43:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T23:43:46","slug":"getty-images-now-free-to-use-well-embed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/getty-images-now-free-to-use-well-embed\/","title":{"rendered":"Getty Images: Now Free to Use (Well, Embed)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russell Brandom at The Verge:<\/p>\n

\n Getty Images is dropping the watermark for the bulk of its collection, in exchange for an open-embed program that will let users drop in any image they want, as long as the service gets to append a footer at the bottom of the picture with a credit and link to the licensing page. For a small-scale WordPress blog with no photo budget, this looks an awful lot like free stock imagery.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Great news for websites like us. I think there’s a good chance we’ll be making use of this in the future.<\/p>\n

Just to prove it works, here’s a picture from the Sochi Winter Olympics:<\/p>\n