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Getty Signs OpenAI Deal, Stock Surges 123%

6/22/2026

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Getty Strikes OpenAI

Getty Images signed a multi-year deal with OpenAI to display its photos in ChatGPT.
The agreement disclosed no financial terms and did not say if OpenAI can train on the images.
Getty’s shares rose up to 200% pre-market on June 22 2026, closing at $1.35, a 123% gain from $0.61.
Getty reported Q1 2026 revenue of $226.6 million, a 4.5% decline in creative revenue, and carries $2.0 billion of debt with an NYSE price-minimum warning.

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Getty Partners OpenAI

OpenAI signed a new licensing deal with Getty Images, expanding Getty’s AI presence after earlier agreements with Perplexity and Canva.
The contract limits images to displayed, attributed use and excludes them from model training, unlike Shutterstock’s 2025 merger that allows DALL-E training.
Analysts view this and other AI deals—Google DeepMind with A24 and Samsung’s ChatGPT launch in South Korea—as signs of rising investment in AI-content partnerships.

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Getty Licenses ChatGPT

Getty Images has signed a licensing agreement with OpenAI that requires ChatGPT to use only rights-cleared photos.
Traders view the deal as protection against the copyright lawsuits that have affected other AI platforms.
The renewed U.S. Soccer contract locks Getty’s licensed images into every visual for the 2026 World Cup.
Analysts say the partnership could push rivals toward similar licensed agreements and influence future AI policy.

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Getty Launches AI

Getty Images banned all AI-generated art from its library in September 2022.
Getty sued Stability AI for alleged copyright violations, resulting in a dismissal late last year.
A year after the ban, Getty launched a generative-AI tool built on its image library and powered by NVIDIA’s Edigy model.
Getty works with nearly 600,000 creators and 360 partners, managing millions of photographs that support coverage of over 160,000 events annually.

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Historical Context

In January 2023 Getty Images sued Stability AI over alleged scraping of millions of its photos to train Stable Diffusion. The dispute foreshadowed an industry shift, as Shutterstock merged in 2025 and Getty, whose archive holds over 477 million assets, later partnered with Nvidia in September 2023 to launch a generative-AI tool that draws only from licensed photos, illustrating selective licensing.

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Getty Strikes OpenAI

Getty Images signed a multi-year deal with OpenAI to display its photos in ChatGPT.
The agreement disclosed no financial terms and did not say if OpenAI can train on the images.
Getty’s shares rose up to 200% pre-market on June 22 2026, closing at $1.35, a 123% gain from $0.61.
Getty reported Q1 2026 revenue of $226.6 million, a 4.5% decline in creative revenue, and carries $2.0 billion of debt with an NYSE price-minimum warning.

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