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Kids in school are also trained on stock images https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/8tgxsm/getty_washington/ https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAr

• snickerbockers 4y ago
  That's technically not a stock image, it's a portait that has been public domain for a long time.
  • anigbrowl 4y ago
    But you've seen many PD images reshared by stock imagery companies. It raises the question of why false assertions of ownership aren't easily prosecuted, given that they constitute a kind of fraud upon the public.
    • mminer237 4y ago
      That's what trademark law is. But I don't think the person who painted the portrait is going to be suing Getty for impugning his good reputation. If something's public domain, anybody can use for anything they want, even if that's just rehosting it with your watermark.
• totetsu 4y ago
  I'm not even an American, and I've heard all about the Getty Images Address.
• jfoster 4y ago
  I think you're technically right, but that this will be overlooked from a legal perspective because it's less obvious that humans have been training ourselves on the prior art of others. We tend to blend in additional things besides prior art. (eg. nature, sensations, etc.)