A History of the World According to Getty Images

Name: A History of the World According to Getty Images
Director: Richard Misek
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022-05-01
Duration: 19 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Miles Davis, Edgar D. Mitchell, Martin Luther King Jr., Wang Weilin

2022

19m

Documentary

Director: Richard Misek

Writer: Richard Misek

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Overview

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?