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Re:The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use Howe... by rvnx on Friday March 15, 2024 @09:33AM (#39715284)
Spending 6 millions EUR per year to get an index of blurry pictures in ElasticSearch (that they just crawled from somewhere). Well, it's only here for 15 years... so make the calculation.
Re:The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use Howe... by c0balt on Friday March 15, 2024 @12:54PM (#39717858)
You are clearly misrepresentating the value here. They also put a watermark on each image. /s
Re:The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use Howe... by capitainenemo on Friday March 15, 2024 @01:05PM (#39718005)
In all fairness, they don't all have watermarks. I don't know why. Perhaps they collected images from a variety of sources before downscaling and those sources included watermarks. I kind of wish that sort of thing had been part of the QA process though. Decent resolution and clean images would make this so much more valuable.