I'm hesitant to post a comment that might seem contrary to support of creator's rights, but if Walmart wasn't making hundreds of dollars of this photo, they'd almost certainly be making hundreds of dollars off another photo. Presumably they think this photo was the best available, but what's the margin of the difference?<p>I see this in the open source debate all the time as well, as though nobody has the right to make a penny out of open source software they didn't write themselves, or owe money to open source authors if they do. The whole point of open source, even libre software, is to create value for users. If those users are able to capture some of that value financially, good for them.<p>Perhaps the photographer in this case was treated unfairly, Shutter stock's terms might be unexpectedly unreasonable I don't know, but we have to take responsibility for how we license out our work and accept that distribution and promotion do also have value.