As we mentioned a few weeks back, Getty Images has updated their watermarks, in an effort to make them something a tad less annoying for folks to share. What do you think?
One of the great frustrations with watermarks on copyrighted images is that they take away from the images themselves and there’s no way to know the original source. Here’s Getty Images’ attempt to change all that, by making the watermarks more graceful and putting a URL right on the image. What do you guys think?
Today in pointing out the additional editorial value Newseum’s long-dormant watermark gives Anthony Weiner’s skin. (Yeah yeah, this is similar to our last post, but you really have to see the effect of the watermarks on that New York Post page close-up.)
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Notice something different about today’s page? Perhaps a little faded and gray? Here’s why. That’s right: Newseum’s testing watermarks. Eww. Our take: There has to be a way for Newseum to deal with this on the server end (say, preventing mass downloaders) without sullying the great pages they offer up to the world.
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