A History of the World According to Getty Images

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?

Cast

Miles Davis

Self (Archive Footage)

Edgar D. Mitchell

Self (Archive Footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (Archive Footage)

N/A

Wang Weilin

Self (Archive Footage)