Letter Received But No Such Image

[eznoh]

To follow up on this, I sent a letter back in early May stating that I had removed the image and that it had never been published, I haven't heard back from them in 3 months so I assume the issue has been resolved. Soon after I sent them an email asking them how I could avoid this in the future since I'm always publishing album covers but they did not respond.

I'd like to thank everyone for their helpful advice in this matter, I donated to the site several months ago.

Mike

[Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi)]

Itt's not uncommon for them to go months between letters...don't be surprised if you here from Getty or Seattle Attorney Timothy B. McCormack at some point.

[eznoh]

I understand, I'm just thinking since it was a matter of days between letter 2 and letter 3 which was delivered as "Fedex - Urgent", that the matter might be resolved.

Mike

[Peeved]

I understand, I'm just thinking since it was a matter of days between letter 2 and letter 3 which was delivered as "Fedex - Urgent", that the matter might be resolved.

Mike

Unless you receive notice from Getty that they are "no longer pursuing the matter", do not consider anything to be "resolved" and expect more harassment. If you don't get it, that's good news but don't expect it.

[ws2001]

A record company sent me a bunch of album covers about 15 years ago and I never got around to making up a thumbnails page.

Sounds more like images covered by First Sales Doctrine.  Where the record company, with physical possession of the record cover (with record), advertises them for sale, asks for reviews, etc.

In the old old days manufacturers mailed out stacks of paper, or computer tape.  Now inventory images and specs are emailed; the hard way.  Or distributor's systems provide direct downloads to front line sellers ( examples Tower Records, iTunes ), advertisers, AND REVIEWERS ( examples Eznoh, Rolling Stone Music Album Reviews ).

Getty Images would have a field day at www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews; followed by a thrashing within a millimeter of their ...

If you have an online mail server, Getty Images will find those images.*
If you receive product downloads, Getty Images will find those images.*

Eznoh and the record company appear to be making 'fair use' of the images.  It's just taken 15 years to review the products.  Procrastination is not copyright infringement.

* Of course the areas would have to not be password protected or encrypted, but like many things silly sites like that exist.