This is a brief excerpt from F-Stoppers
Stock photography has always seemed to go one of two ways. Either you make a great living, or you memorize McDonald’s value menu; however, no matter if stock income is your main source, or a small residual you need to know about Getty’s current partnership with Google. On December 6th of 2012 Google Drive (a free service) announced on their blog that “5,000 new photos of nature, weather, animals, sports, food, education, technology, music and 8 other categories are now available for your use in Docs, Sheets, and Slides” yet they failed to clue anyone in as to where the images came from, or what the license terms were.
Google Docs allows you to search a internal stock library of free images for insertion into any document you are creating, but there is no credit to the photographer whatsoever. In fact, according to one iStocker’s post on January 10th even the EXIF data has been stripped out. Clicking link about copyright within Google Docs says this: “When using the Google Image Search feature in Google Docs, your results will be filtered to include images labeled with a license that allows you to copy the image for commercial purposes and modify …
By: David Bickley
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