Getty Images Reviews 125

A bank of images to avoid
I just definitively closed my account following the sale by Getty images of my entire portfolio over a single day, i.e. 2850 photos which brought me a total of $ 11: yes, I mean $ 11 for 2850 photos, or a little less than $ 0.004 per photo !!!!!!
It is simply shameful. Was it explained to me that they were sold to a search engine? I do not believe it at all and even if it were true, you could at least question me to know if I will agree to sell my entire portfolio for this misery ...

Absolute shambles of a company. My business pays for one of the highest subscriptions each year, in excess of £5K. For the last two years, they misquoted and then charged more. This year I had to chase them about renewing, they eventually sent a confirmation email and then it didn't renew. So we didn't have access to the files we needed, on deadline, to our biggest customer. Completely disorganised and unreliable.

Copyright N*zis, Thieves stealing images and inundating google with watermarked images, damaging innovation and global creativity.
Greedy, immoral, disgusting. In other words, F*** Getty images and its hoards of inhuman lawyers.

I found one of my images being used as Getty Images place holder on Google, with gettyimages written across it. I have no idea how they got it, this image has never been online. When I emailed them to ask if they would like to do some legitimate business with me they told me to apply via their contributor app, when I did so it just crashed and then refused to open again, repeatedly!!
When I contact them about it they just lied and evaded.
This is a dishonest company. Do not attempt to do business with them. They did not get to be the biggest by honest means

Bad service
I found my picture on another webpage, It was edited a little and then put on sale again, I grabbed the owner of the page and said he bought the picture, but I had not received payment a for resale.
The buyers of the image he had an expensive subscription so he had not done anything wrong- he said, It was hard to grab some at istock/Getty Images which could help me, in that connection I terminate my profile and my picture. When I finally got hold of them, I received this mail.
Since your account was terminated we don't represent this image anymore, we have no legal basis to demand payment for an unauthorized use. :(

Won't cough up the receipt for my pumpaudio.com purchase (which they bought)... sick of dealing with their bad customer interface!

Scam business - one of their photographers stole my wedding picture (my own face) and is selling it as his own picture ! I write to GettyImage, no response in 45 days. I write again, no response again for other 10 days. Shaddy business, Getty Images do NOT verify the pictures of their photographers are those of their photographers.

PS. Your answer, Getty Image, does not answer my question - as you do NOT answer your e-mails. I write several e-mails and you do not answer. You do not answer forms you receive via web, nor e-mails you receive, and you do not check your contributors who are stealing images of other people - all that for money. You accept contributors with only 7 images, all of them stolen. You could check via google where the image is first posted, but no, you put images in your "catalogue" just like that - no verification !

Thief is getting money, Getty is getting money also, and the victim is just that. A victim. Shame on you for not checking photos you receive and you do not react to complaints. Shame, shame on you. Very bad business.