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syntheticpubes:

In 2005, Getty Images licensed 1.4 million preshot commercial photos. Last year, it licensed 22 million—and “all of the growth was through our user-generated business,” Mr. Klein said.

That is because amateurs are largely happy to be paid anything for their photos.…

But amateurs like Ms. Pruitt do not particularly care.

“I never followed any traditional photography rules only because I didn’t know of any—I never went to photography school, never took any classes,” she said. “People don’t know the rules, so they just shoot what they like—and other people like it, too.”

Oh right, so no rules and the auto setting. Gotcha.