“We’ve been made aware that there might have been some misunderstanding regarding our recent HUAWEI P30 Series teaser posters. We would like to reiterate that those are, in fact, only teaser posters, and are only intended to hint at the unique new features that will come with the HUAWEI P30 Series. Huawei has acquired the licenses to the original images and the posters are artistic renditions of said features only. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank the media for their interest in our posters. We have much to announce in the coming weeks. Please stay tuned!”At least two of the photos are available for license on Getty Images, which allows those who want to pay a licensing fee to utilize photos for marketing. In the photo of the little boy with the ducklings, the original was quickly tracked by to a photographer named Jake Olson. TechEngage reached out to Olson to inquire about the use of his photo in the Huawei campaign and he told us that while he didn’t give the company permission to use his photo, it was available for license on Getty Images. Olson also told us that this particular photo is from a shoot he did with his own young son and taken with a DLSR camera that costs roughly $2500 and a lens that runs another $2000:
“I believe the image was licensed through Getty. The image was of my son…and was taken with a Canon 5D Mark 3 using the Canon 85mm 1.2.”Olsen also told us that Canon even used his image – inverted horizontally – for their own packaging in Canada a few years ago. But it was for a camcorder from a different line.
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