Building slightly on that analogy: Before setting up that tent, some random person tells getty "Hey I own this park," pointing to Central Park, "You can charge

Building slightly on that analogy: Before setting up that tent, some random person tells getty "Hey I own this park," pointing to Central Park, "You can charge admission on my behalf." Getty then setups up a tent without a second thought about verifying the veracity of the persons claim. // I'm not sure if Getty just sucked in all those public domain images and said "Is private now." or through their submission process, some individually claimed to own the copyright, and had Getty do the dirty work.