Getty Images presents complaint against Google – Magazine Saturday

Getty Images presents complaint against Google

The photo agency came forward with a complaint against the technology with the regulator of European competition. At issue is the fact that the technology show agency images without compensating for it.

15:51 • Business

By Inés F. Alves – Business Journal

Getty Images, one of the largest photo agencies the world, reported this Wednesday, April 27, which moved officially a complaint against Google for abuse of dominant position in search services, showing high resolution images, copied and copyrighted, without compensating the agency or the creators of these works.
the complaint filed by the agency “focuses specifically on the changes made in 2013 to Google images, Google’s image search service,” can be read in the statement Getty images . At issue is the “creation of cativadoras image galleries in high resolution with content copyrighted.”
“As the consumption of images is immediate, when an image is displayed in high resolution, large format, there is no great incentive to look for the image on the original site, “says the note. For the agency, this behavior “promotes piracy” and “turns users into accidental pirates”.

Yoko Miyashita, vice president of Getty Images, stresses that the agency is “more than 200,000 reporters, content creators and artists around the world “who” trust “in their services to” protect their ability to be compensated for their work. ” “Artists need to be paid to stay creative and licensing is key to this,” he adds.
The company still prospers in a statement that “strongly supports a richer digital world in pictures, but who recognize and remunerate the creators of content. “
This complaint with the European Commission’s regulatory comes after the Getty Images identify as an interested party in June 2015, the research promoted by Brussels over anti-competitive practices of Google.
the agency points out that “the current procedures of the Commission against Google are comprehensive, with Google accused of distorting the results of research to favor their own services.” Getty Images also recalls the Brussels preliminary opinion issued last week against the technology, in which the Commission considers that the company has a dominant position on the Android operating system, violating the rules of competition.

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