18+ pluralistic OP , 1 month ago Getty Images pays photographers the least it can get away with. Publishers contracts have transformed by inches into miles-long, ghastly rights grabs that take everything from writers, but still shifts legal risks onto them: https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/19/reasonable-agreement/ Publishers like the New York Times bitterly oppose their writers' unions: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/new-york-times-stop-union-busting 20/
Getty Images pays photographers the least it can get away with. Publishers contracts have transformed by inches into miles-long, ghastly rights grabs that take everything from writers, but still shifts legal risks onto them:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/19/reasonable-agreement/
Publishers like the New York Times bitterly oppose their writers' unions:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/new-york-times-stop-union-busting
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