Photo Business News & Forum: Getty Images Splitting Sales With Celebrity Subjects on th... - 0 views
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paul lowe on 31 Aug 09Getty Images Splitting Sales With Celebrity Subjects on the "DL" It seems that Getty Images may be playing fast and loose with the ethics of photojournalism these days. Getty is sharing in the sales of images of certain celebrities with the celebrities themselves, for example, in a little-known maneuver where they just happen to be in the right place at the right tim to catch a celebrity doing something, paparazzi style. They are, unfortunately, doing this on the down-low, and that's where the ethical problem comes in.