I used to run a pop culture blog and embedded an image of a celebrity on the site several year ago. I received an email in August 2014 from them and called them. I talked to a guy and after a long discussion he said if I took the image down it would be cool. I took the post down and didn't hear back. Then two weeks ago I started getting emails from Stacy a paralegal at Sanders Law.
I called her and told her I had talked to someone about the image and took the post down. She said it didn't matter and I needed to settle for several hundred dollars. I told her I would get back to her. She called back a few days later and I told her I didn't appreciate getting shaken down and she said I had until the next business day to let her know who my attorney was or she was going to go ahead with litigation.
I exchanged emails with my attorney the next day and he said he would get back to me after he researched it. That was a few days ago and I hadn't heard back from him yet. Today I got another email from Stacy saying that since I rejected their settlement offer of $1,300 it was now null and void. (It was only a few hundred two weeks ago when we talked initially). She then said that the complaint would be filed by the end of the week and again asked me for the info for my attorney.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I haven't heard back from my attorney yet and I'm not sure when I will. He's a busy guy but Sanders is being so pushy I don't know what to do. I've read that they have been filing cases recently.
They sent me a screengrab of the my site but I know the pic was embedded and not uploaded to my servers. From what I understand this is perfectly legal.
Any advice?
I called her and told her I had talked to someone about the image and took the post down. She said it didn't matter and I needed to settle for several hundred dollars. I told her I would get back to her. She called back a few days later and I told her I didn't appreciate getting shaken down and she said I had until the next business day to let her know who my attorney was or she was going to go ahead with litigation.
I exchanged emails with my attorney the next day and he said he would get back to me after he researched it. That was a few days ago and I hadn't heard back from him yet. Today I got another email from Stacy saying that since I rejected their settlement offer of $1,300 it was now null and void. (It was only a few hundred two weeks ago when we talked initially). She then said that the complaint would be filed by the end of the week and again asked me for the info for my attorney.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I haven't heard back from my attorney yet and I'm not sure when I will. He's a busy guy but Sanders is being so pushy I don't know what to do. I've read that they have been filing cases recently.
They sent me a screengrab of the my site but I know the pic was embedded and not uploaded to my servers. From what I understand this is perfectly legal.
Any advice?