Getty Images Sued Again for Trying to License Public Domain Images

In the lawsuit, CixxFive correctly notes that Getty has NASA images in its database, and those are very clearly in the public domain. Also, specific public domain images are overlaid on Getty and/or Getty US’s website with the © symbol followed by an entity or contributor name, indicating that the image is protected by copyright. The lawsuit also points to Getty’s infamous copyright trolling practices via its subsidiary License Compliance Services (LCS), but never actually shows that LCS has threatened anyone over the use of public domain material… other than raising the issue of Carol Highsmith, whose lawsuit we mentioned above, and which got thrown out of court.

Source: www.techdirt.com