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

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.

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

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.

Annice Lyn is a professional photojournalist who was once a figure skater at the national level. She was the first and only Malaysian female photographer whose work was accredited for the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, 2018.

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.

An independent photojournalist who contributes to Getty has been accused of staging a photo of a child throwing a mask into a burning barrel during an anti-mask protest in Portland, Oregon.

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."

Canon claims that a majority share of press cameras at the Olympics were its mirrorless and DSLRs, claiming its 1DX Mark III, R5, and R6 were "widely used."

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.

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.

Google has removed the "View Image" button from its Image Search results that had allowed anyone to quickly download the original image file while bypassing the host webpage. This is a step Google is taking to help protect photographers' copyrights.

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.

Getty Images, one of the largest stock photo agencies in the world and the official photo agency of the International Olympic Committee, is preparing for Rio by embracing the role of virtual reality in photography's future.

Getty Images is making waves today after filing a formal complaint against none other than search and tech giant Google with the EU Antitrust commission. The complaint accuses Google Image Search of promoting piracy, "resulting in widespread copyright infringement [and] turning users into accidental pirates."

Earlier today you may have heard some strange news if you're a user of the image theft detection service Pixsy. In an email to its users, the company indicated that it has been acquired by none other than Getty Images.

20th Century Fox has come up with an unusual way to promote its upcoming film Unfinished Business. Teaming up with Getty Images and its iStock service, the studio has created a series of generic-looking stock photos showing Vince Vaughn and his co-stars in a corporate atmosphere.

Here's a short 2-minute behind-the-scenes video showing how Getty's Chief Entertainment Photographer Larry Busacca shot celebrity portraits at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Busacca had to shoot all the portraits in the same tiny, green-walled tent studio, so he had to get creative with posing to shoot unique portraits of the actors.

Almost two months ago Getty unveiled Stream, an iOS app designed to let you browse through and legally share its impressive image archive. Today, they bring that experience to the desktop with Getty Images Stream for OS X.

Almost six months to the day after Getty made its photographs embeddable, the massive photo agency has announced Stream: an iOS app that will allow you to browse through and share its vast image archive.

A recently-released product by Microsoft that allows content creators to embed digital images on their websites is being called a “massive infringement” of copyright images in a lawsuit filed by Getty Images against the computer giant.

For celebrities, selling off the rights to publish wedding photos can be quite the money-maker. And if your last names are Pitt and Jolie, that is doubly true.

However, rather than raking in the dough for themselves, the couple decided to team up exclusively with Getty and use the photos of their recent nuptials to raise money for the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation.

Getty Images photographer arrested #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/ScOaHO8bjY— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 18, 2014

The photograph above, tweeted out by Huffington Post justice reporter Ryan J. Reilly, shows Getty photographer Scott Olson being taken into custody by Ferguson police while covering the ongoing protests and riots sparked by the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, an unarmed African American man who was shot and killed by police on August 9th.

In stock photography more so than any other type of photography, the trends of photographs being taken and shared change from year to year. As marketing approaches and accompanying business values change, so does the stock photography market, so as to reflect the growing need for a specific ‘look’ or ‘type’ of photograph.

Here to show us what’s trending for 2014 is an interesting (and possibly useful) infographic released by Getty Images’ iStock.

This past weekend I had the incredible opportunity to shoot the Kentucky Derby with the Getty team.

Getty Images caught no end of flack for allowing anyone to embed much of their archives for free, but their business plan going forward doesn't just include sharing images for free. The company wants to make a more permanent mark on your life as well, and they're doing it by letting you buy prints of award-winning photographs from their archive through a new service at Photos.com.