Time Magazine:
Photography company Getty Images is accusing Google of scraping images from third party websites and encouraging piracy, adding a new wrinkle to the Mountain View, Calif.’s ongoing legal battles in Europe.
In its complaint to the European Union’s antitrust commission, Getty says Google Images, which displays full-screen slideshows of high-resolution copyrighted images, has hurt the stock agency’s licensing business as well as content creators worldwide. Google first introduced the feature in Jan. 2013. Previously, the search engine only displayed tiny thumbnails of images.
And:
Getty argues that since image consumption is immediate, “there is little impetus to view the image on the original source site” once it’s seen in high resolution on Google. By making these images available to download, Google has “also promoted piracy, resulting in widespread copyright infringement, turning users into accidental pirates,” Getty claims.
Shocking.
The Google evil empire is heading for its big shakedown. Glad I’m not invested there.
Is Google ignoring their robots.txt? Also, Getty may be unable to win because they are offering free non-commercial embeds. It seems like Google gave Getty the option to opt out, but Getty wants to control how Google presents something that they want Google to show. This is much more complex than “Google bad and stealing images”.
http://infocus.gettyimages.com/post/new-embed-lets-you-share-tens-of-millions-of-images
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Google, kicking copyright in the nuts since… well since they were founded.