As with most news stories this one leaves out a lot of the (rather important) details. My son-in-law (who does a lot of stock photography with Getty, etc.) follows this stuff closely. His brief take... - - - I think the judge was a bit overzealous (I mean this was a pretty standard tourist destination and no doubt there are probably 10,000 other images similar to these out there), but it's a myth that a photo has to be an exact copy to be an infringement. Context matters a lot, too -- and in this context, from what I read of the ruling, it sounds like the company originally just out and out stole the photographer's photograph, the photographer told them to knock it off, they knocked it off, and THEN they sent one of their own employees out to go and try to reproduce the photograph on location and in Photoshop. - - -
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