While the title sounds a little scary on its own, it merely serves as a platform for Getty to “invite” handpicked Flickr members to sell their images through Getty Images. See the following press release for more details.
Getty Images and Flickr Announce Exclusive Partnership to Offer New Collection of Creative Imagery
New Flickr Collection on gettyimages.com to Provide Customers Even More Authentic, Diverse and Regionally Relevant Imagery
SEATTLE & SAN FRANCISCO – Getty Images, the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media, and FlickrTM, a division of Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) and one of the world’s largest photo sharing communities, today announce a collaboration that unites the authenticity of images from the Flickr community with Getty Images’ imagery collections, photographic expertise and unrivalled experience in licensing digital media. [Read more…]