Editing Getty Images (section)

=== Claiming copyright over public domain content ===
Getty Images has continued the practice that Corbis (whose license it acquired in 2016) has been criticized for of claiming copyright, watermarking and selling images that are in public domain, including images related to The Holocaust like the [[Warsaw Ghetto boy]] photo,<ref name="Struk">{{cite book |last=Struk |first=Janina |date=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P0CnKQpDIL8C |title=Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the Evidence |publisher=I.B.Tauris |pages=208–209 |isbn=978-1-86064-546-4 |access-date=5 August 2022 |archive-date=13 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113183109/https://books.google.com/books?id=P0CnKQpDIL8C |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/frightened-jewish-families-surrender-to-nazi-soldiers-at-news-photo/613463274|title=Nazis Arresting Jews in Warsaw Ghetto|website=Getty Images|date=7 October 2016 |access-date=1 November 2018|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801022843/https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/frightened-jewish-families-surrender-to-nazi-soldiers-at-news-photo/613463274|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Polish cavalry in Sochaczew photograph]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Battle of the Bzura. Polish cavalry in Sochaczew in 1939.World War II |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/battle-of-the-bzura-polish-cavalry-in-sochaczew-in-1939-news-photo/113494246 |website=Getty Images |date=2 May 2011 |access-date=13 November 2018 |archive-date=13 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113210500/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/battle-of-the-bzura-polish-cavalry-in-sochaczew-in-1939-news-photo/113494246 |url-status=live }}</ref> or images created by [[NASA]].<ref name="techdirt"/> Getty has also tried to collect fees from photographers for use of their own images that they had previously put in the public domain.<ref name="techdirt">[https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190329/15352641901/getty-images-sued-yet-again-trying-to-license-public-domain-images.shtml Getty Images Sued Yet Again For Trying To License Public Domain Images] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801031258/https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190329/15352641901/getty-images-sued-yet-again-trying-to-license-public-domain-images.shtml |date=1 August 2020 }}, Mike Masnick, techDirt, 1 April 2019</ref>

Public-domain photos from historical photographers such as [[Dorothea Lange]] and [[Walker Evans]] have long been available for unrestricted downloading from the United States [[Library of Congress]].  The exact same images are also available from Getty Images, subject to a licensing fee of up to $5,000 for a six-month term.<ref name="latimes20160801"/>  This demonstrates an example of [[copyfraud]].