Hacker CinemaA History of the World According to Getty Images
A History of the World According to Getty Images
2022 · Film · documentary · 19 min
Directed by Richard Misek
How can something in the public domain not be publicly available? A critical investigation of public domain—a legal term that has nothing to do with free access or public availability—that uses powerhouse commercial archive Getty Images as its example. If the world's visual history remains locked behind a paywall, who will ever see it?
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There's at least one other person with the same hobby, because they made a short documentary about it, thereby 'liberating' the source material (in a really unpractical way): "A History of the World According to Getty Images" [1] [2] [3]
[1] https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/f2e29b37-216a-4899-ae67-c4367b8b9a36/a-history-of-the-world-according-to-getty-images
[2] https://www.ahistoryoftheworldaccordingtogettyimages.com/ (which can't be downloaded)
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIinx95rFxg