Getty Images, iStockphoto Have Trouble Integrating Jupiterimages Web Sites
Posted on 5/8/2009 by Julia Dudnik Stern | Printable Version |
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This week saw Getty Images' first public move to integrate the recently acquired Photos.com and Jupiterimages Unlimited into the proverbial bigger picture. The plan was to augment the inventories of the two Web sites with some iStockphoto content. Despite iStock's atypically great relationship with its community and seemingly reasonable contributor terms, contributors' vehement anti-subscription and anti-Getty Images feelings almost immediately derailed the plan, at least for the moment.
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