Getty Images: royalties paid to contracted suppliers on ordinary licences

“Suppliers who choose to work with us under contract typically receive royalties of 20% to 50% of the total license fee we charge customers, depending on the basis on which their content is licensed by our customers. Contributors are compensated for any inclusion of their content in AI data training sets and may share in the revenue generated by AI tools and services trained with their content.”

• Getty Images' image collection grew 6.5% to 609 million images at 31 December 2025 (572 million a year earlier); with video it owned or licensed over 645 million images and videos, from more than 83,000 exclusive contributors.

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