It isn’t. Most of the time, we end up going to some low-rent generic music licensing site and getting some mediocre filler.

2) In this case, there’s a whole genre of photo-permissions and art-permissions disputes, such as this, this and this, in which the underlying claim may be well founded on its face but the law leaves the proper quantum of damages so uncertain as to encourage high monetary demands and intensive litigation.

3) Large businesses have already been getting the message that they’d better step up lawyerly supervision of each and every use of images in their communications and output, even if that makes it more complicated and bureaucratic for them to, e.g., put out a localized newsletter. Disputes like this might well pressure public-sector entities down the same path, for better or worse.