@Professor 188391 wrote:
I guess Getty is bored and have joined the fray of pestering smaller online operators.
I think Getty also own iStockphoto these days. They’ve always been pretty on the ball when it comes to chasing up people illegally using their images. What often happens is people will take images from some website thinking it’s free to use, or in a template, but the original creator got the image from somewhere like iStock or Getty, and that’s when they get caught. If it’s an affiliate banner, then the company supplying the image should be their first port of call.