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The J. Paul Getty Museum added around 88,000 images of artworks from its collection to its Open Content database.

The Getty Images' Italian website is being forced to remove any content that depicts Michelangelo's David after legal action was brought by the Italian Ministry of Culture.

Getty Images has launched "Generative AI by iStock": an AI image generator that allows customers to create their own artificial intelligence stock photos.

Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Runway has partnered with stock agency Getty Images to launch a new generative video model for enterprise customers.

After months of rejecting AI imagery, Getty Images has today launched its own AI image generator that is exclusively trained on its extensive photo library.

Last year, Getty rejected AI generated content and announced that it would not accept any submissions created with AI models. The company is reiterating that in an email sent to creators that now specifically calls out Adobe.

A famed music photographer has sued Getty Images for allegedly selling some of his most iconic images without entering into an agreement with him.

Getty has rejected Trillium Capital's nearly $4 billion takeover offer as not "sufficiently credible." Trillium claims the offer is credible, but declined to provide the details to prove it.

Getty Images believes that the AI image generator Stable Diffusion has stolen over 12 million of its copyrighted photos. The photo agency has filed a lawsuit against the company and is seeking up to $150,000 per infringement, or up to $1.8 trillion.

Getty Images is launching legal action against the creators of Stable Diffusion claiming the AI image generator infringed its copyright.

Free stock photography website Unsplash has announced a paid version, one year after Getty acquired the company.

Getty Images has announced it will not accept submissions that were created with AI-image generators and will remove all such artworks.

Getty Images will allow access to 30,000 rarely seen images of the Black diaspora in the United Kingdom and the United States that date back to the 19th century.

Getty Images has announced what it says is the industry's first model release that reflects advancements in data privacy and security as well as covering artificial intelligence, machine learning, and biometric data security.

Even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, photographers at the Olympics need to deliver their images as quickly as possible. At the 2022 Winter Olympics, Getty Image’s photo editing team is mainly remote and the agency has shared how that system works.

Getty photographer Mario Tama shares some of his thoughts and photos that he captured over 2021 that highlight a particularly impactful year as the planet began to emerge from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Getty has announced that it will become a publicly-traded company. The company is valued at $4.8 billion and plans to list itself on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol "GETY."

A Canadian woman has raised concern after discovering that a photograph of her mother mourning at a memorial site is now sold and licensed through Getty Images.

It was so close to the first of April, it sounded like an April’s fool hoax: the gentle freedom-loving all sharing company would be selling to the greedy capitalistic money-making titan. Or, in other words, Getty Images was acquiring Unsplash. The two unlikely partners officially became at the end of April, sending ripples through the stock photography world and beyond.

After rioters stormed the US Capitol last week, one of the surreal photos that emerged showed a smiling man walking off with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's lectern in the Rotunda. Then things got even more bizarre: people began calling for "Via Getty" to be arrested for his actions.

Getty Images has announced an... interesting partnership with the creators of the video game Gran Turismo. In light of the pandemic and the rise of eSports, the photo agency will begin using "world-class motorsports photographers" to capture "stunning in-game photography" from the FIA's Gran Turismo Championships. In other words: Getty is now licensing video game screenshots.

It took three years, and multiple requests, but law student Kennedy Reese has finally convinced Getty Images to stop selling a photo of her working at McDonalds when she was 15. The photo was taken without her knowledge, and used in numerous negative and embarrassing articles.

The American billionaire Koch brothers now own a sizable chunk of Getty Images after the investment arm of Koch Industries agreed to make a $500 million investment in the stock photo agency.

The stock photo powerhouse Getty Images is now once again owned by the Getty family from which it received its name. The company announced that the family has acquired a majority stake in the company and will take full control.

When Getty Images set up its contributor agreement with Flickr in 2008 to allow Flickr users to sell their photos, I enabled the feature. While not a professional photographer, I had been approached a couple of times in the past about licensing some of my shots and thought the opportunity to sell through Getty Images could formalize this process.

500px has announced that it will be winding down its Marketplace for premium royalty-free stock photos and will instead be selling its users photos exclusively through Visual China Group (its parent company) in China and through Getty Images across the rest of the world.

What began as one of the most explosive, publicized, and potentially ground-breaking copyright lawsuits in the world has ended in less-than-explosive terms. Carol Highsmith's $1 billion lawsuit against Getty Images has, for the most part, been thrown out of court.

Three Instagram photographers have been selected as recipients of this year's Getty Images Instagram Grants. Their mobile-shared photos have earned them each $10,000 and an exhibition in New York.

Getty Images has filed their official response to Carol Highsmith's highly-publicized $1 Billion copyright claim against the company. And the gist of the response is, in essence, "no take backsies."

The stakes at the Olympics are unimaginably high... and we're not only talking about the athletes. As a professional photographer at the Olympics, you're constantly searching for a unique vantage point. Getty Images is finding theirs by using fancy robotic underwater housings.

We recently shared the impressive Canon DSLR arsenal Getty Images brought to the Rio 2016 Olympics. Here's something else that's impressive: the agency team of photographers and photo editors at the Games can snap, edit, and share official Olympic photos in as little as two minutes.

A week after being slapped with a $1 billion copyright-related lawsuit, Getty Images has been served with another suit. This time it's by Zuma Press, an independent press agency that accuses Getty of infringing on over 47,000 photos.

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith rocked the copyright world this week when it was revealed she was suing Getty Images for a whopping $1 Billion over what she called "gross misuse" of 18,755 of her photographs documenting America. Today, Getty finally replied publicly to these charges.