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ELI Forums => Getty Images Letter Forum => Topic started by: phxsunbum on September 13, 2011, 09:56:23 AM
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I download an image from a site that offered royalty free images and included it in a site for my client to review. The image was on our server but never published to the world, however I assume it was searchable via google until the final product was released and the link published.
After reading about the Getty Letter on other forums I found out about ImageExchange that can be used to identify rights protected images. To be safe I immediately began checking all the sites I produced and found the image referenced was actually owned by Getty. On July 14, 2011 at 2:36pm the entire site was removed from our servers as a result of this self-discovery.
On September 8, 2011, almost 2 months later, my client received a letter from Getty demanding payment of $760 to "settle" this matter.
I believe I was proactive and did my due-diligence and as a result of self-discovery removed the image rather than wait for it to be discovered. I believe this is a valid defense. Any thoughts from anyone else?
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I would agree, hence the problem with archive.org and other sites that cache pages, there always seems to be a trail..