Our friends have a very small business and yes are incorporated with a registered agent - as is required by their state. They received the Getty letter on a single image and took it off the site. Their teenage son helped build the site years ago - and said he only used "free images" and they honestly don't recall how that image got there and as it was in the frame of the site could even have been an image included in Sitebuilder - who Parallels has admitted they had a problem with some of their older templates - of which they had one from their website host provider. http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?261320-Getty-Images-Copyright-Infringement-Notice-from-SiteBuilder-Image
http://kb.parallels.com/en/116513
They spoke to parallels who said all website providers received notices to discontinue these older templates but the host says they received nothing and know nothing on this.
The host says they are willing to send it to their legal department if our friends want them to (and presumably go after Parallels to make it right but that wasn't spelled out). Both Parallels (customer service)and the host said they don't keep copies of such old templates nor the pics in them. However, if they do keep copies of the licenses from that time and the pic was not in the original template maybe that will be worse than ignoring Getty by getting the host legal department involved?
Our friends received one letter but did not answer it over a year ago. A few other letters came to the office where their mailbox is but it was addressed to a person or "department" they don't have and sent back unopened. They haven't heard anything in about a year and are unsure of what to do. Yes they read every post and suggestion on here and know the options. LOL.
http://kb.parallels.com/en/116513
They spoke to parallels who said all website providers received notices to discontinue these older templates but the host says they received nothing and know nothing on this.
The host says they are willing to send it to their legal department if our friends want them to (and presumably go after Parallels to make it right but that wasn't spelled out). Both Parallels (customer service)and the host said they don't keep copies of such old templates nor the pics in them. However, if they do keep copies of the licenses from that time and the pic was not in the original template maybe that will be worse than ignoring Getty by getting the host legal department involved?
Our friends received one letter but did not answer it over a year ago. A few other letters came to the office where their mailbox is but it was addressed to a person or "department" they don't have and sent back unopened. They haven't heard anything in about a year and are unsure of what to do. Yes they read every post and suggestion on here and know the options. LOL.