Getty Is Quietly Charging Bloggers For 'Socially Awkward Penguin' Meme
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/getty-socially-awkward-penguin_55e9dbece4b03784e275c935
GetDigital editors explained in a post on the site this
week how Getty had contacted them about a three-year-old post
featuring the SAP meme. After a few written exchanges, the
image service requested EUR 785.40 (around $875) in license fees
-- about twice what the blog says it would regularly cost for a
publication its size to use the image for three years. They paid
the hefty sum out of court and deleted the offending images, but
Getty had one more request. GetDigital said the company forbade
them from talking to others about the copyright issue or else
risk official legal action.
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