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ELI Forums => Getty Images Letter Forum => Topic started by: SoylentGreen on December 30, 2012, 03:26:29 PM
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Canadian victims... here's an article of interest by the CIPPIC
http://www.cippic.ca/en/Trolls
A Happy New Year to all, and many thanks for the stellar work done by so many contributors to ELI.
The efforts made here are often nothing less than heroic.
S.G.
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That is a great article SG! I have made note of the link on this thread so I can refer it to others if they are from Canada! Thanks for sharing!
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SG, excellent find. Thank you for sharing this superb overview and useful resources.
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SG,
Great job on finding this.
Great job to CIPPIC for finally doing something meaningful to help its Canadian victims and letter recipients. CIPPIC even refers to ELI as a reliable source of information under "Secondary Materials".
I think the Copyright Trolls FAQ was well-written and well-explained. Even I got a few valuable nuggets out of it to incorporate into the ELI Support Calls.
It appears that ELI has certainly had a strong influence in the creation and the content of the FAQ. It is nice to see another "credible" website take on the copyright extortionists and calling them out on their insidious and underhanded tactics.
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Am I understanding this correctly?
If I used a photo on a Canadian website, then Getty must own both the US and Canadian copyright?
"Many trolls have registered works in the United States, and provide copies of these registrations to Canadian victims to "prove" that they own copyright in Canada. US copyright registrations are irrelevant in Canada - only Canadian registrations have any relevance. "
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You get different rights if the work if "registered." But if I register it in the US, I can't claim its a registered work in a Canada unless I register it in Canada as well.
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Thank you Oscar, that's what I thought. What make my situation even more interesting is that my company is Croatian owned but they are contacting me at my personal residence in Canada.
So in this situation they would also have to hold the Croatian copyright.
Thanks, this forum has been very helpful.
Lynda
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Offhand, I'd say that it would governed by Croatian laws.
Ironically, Getty doesn't hold the copyrights to the images that comprise most of its collections.
If they are copyrighted at all, the copyrights are often held by the artist/photographers in botched bulk registrations.
Additionally, Getty's contracts with its artists were recently revealed to be in a state of shambles.
In any case, it's rather pointless to inquire as to whether or not they own the copyright.
They'll often call your bluff by saying that they don't have to send you proof unless it goes to court.
Getty images have never filed a lawsuit over a single image, so it's unlikely that anything would ever come of this.
S.G.