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Google settled a lawsuit with Getty Images and announced a multiyear global licensing deal with the company. One part of the settlement is the removal of the "View Image" buttons in Google Images searches. This is not entirely crippling, as you can still usually open the largest version of the image using your web browser's context menu:
Google is making a change to image search today that sounds small but will have a big impact: it's removing the "view image" button that appeared when you clicked on a picture, which allowed you to open the image alone. The button was extremely useful for users, since when you're searching for a picture, there's a very good chance that you want to take it and use it for something. Now, you'll have to take additional steps to save an image.
The change is essentially meant to frustrate users. Google has long been under fire from photographers and publishers who felt that image search allowed people to steal their pictures, and the removal of the view image button is one of many changes being made in response. A deal to show copyright information and improve attribution of Getty photos was announced last week and included these changes.
Google is also removing "Search by Image" buttons, requiring users to drag an image into the search bar instead.
Also at Search Engine Land and 9to5Google.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @08:43AM (2 children)
Maybe don't put it on the internet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @10:43AM
Yeh, I found a picture of ME. Naked. On the internet.
I have some lady to thank for that. Thank goodness the link did not have any identifying info... so its just another nekkid guy.
Oh well, maybe someone get their jollies off on it. I can tell you there are a lot more attractive specimens out there, though. I am quite on the scrawny side.
(Score: 2) by dw861 on Monday February 19 2018, @12:25AM
Not a practical suggestion if you are in the business of selling digital images on the internet. If there were a way around this it would already be in effect.
As you probably know, such sites post lower resolution images, or images with watermarks, as an invitation to purchase rights to use a high resolution image with no watermark.
I find that many young students give class presentations using slides that contain watermarked images. I always take the opportunity to point out that this means they have infringed somebody's copyright. Whether you think that is ok or not is irrelevant. The dept for which I worked some years back was successfully sued by a photographer when a faculty member used an unattributed, unlicensed photo on a webpage. It was expensive to resolve.
Do whatever you want in your private life, if one can only harm themself. At work, it is a good idea to obey the law. Unless you've got something else going in your favour, your career will advance faster.