It may have nothing to with copyright just the terms under which you accessed them . Most TOS boilerplate typicall prohibit commercial usage of their library w

It may have nothing to with copyright just the terms under which you accessed them . Most TOS boilerplate typicall prohibit commercial usage of their library without explicit license , Getty and every other company has that foresight if there is money to made they would want their cut is all that really need . Let’s say you even just wanted to consume all images just sell an analysis of how many b/w images are there in their catalog it would still breach of their terms unless their TOS allowed you to do so the novel copyright question may simply not even matter in this particular case.