NCS IP Solutions Settlement Offer Letter

[Matthew Chan]

We have posted a copy of the NCS IP Solutions Settlement Offer Letter. 

http://www.scribd.com/doc/94881663/NCS-IP-Solutions-Settlement-Offer-Letter-Getty-Images

NCS is primarily a collection agency based in Florida despite what their letterhead says.

The letter is fairly short and tame. It appears to be a 3rd-party notification service to call Getty Images unlike a few years back when NCS attempted to collect on behalf of Getty Images.

NCS IP Solutions appears to be side-stepping the direct collection issue on this particular letter.

[Mulligan]

Matt, did this come directly after Getty's series of letters or did it come after letters from Getty and then McCormack?

[Matthew Chan]

It is after the series of initial Getty Images demand and escalation letters. McCormack isn't involved at this point as far that I know of. My guess that the collection lawyers are involved AFTER the NCS IP Solutions Settlement Offer Letter if it fails to do the job.

[Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi)]

Pretty sure Matthew has the order correct....Getty Demand Letters, then NCS collection letters, the it it sent to McCormack Law for another round of threatening and demanding letters.. Getty's very own circle of life

[Mulligan]

Matt and Robert, thank you. Very interesting.

My situation was several letters to and from Getty and then escalation to close to three times the original demand by McCormack in an initial letter, which I rejected with a nose snort that would make a horse proud.

A second letter from McCormack of course supplied no proof of any right for them to do anything other than pound sand, so I've not responded with a reply to their non-responsive BS second letter.

It'll be interesting to see if a third letter from the copyright trolls at Timothy B. McCormack's outside counsel will be forthcoming or if instead I'll be passed over to NCS IP for a dip in their pool of BS.

I wonder about Getty's criteria for taking the various escalation options?

Is the initial escalation sent to McCormack or other outside counsel if the recipient has communicated with one of Getty's interns several times?

Or does Getty escalate first to NCS if they get no reply from their initial series of letters and then later to outside counsel if NCS fails to extract payment?

I guess there's no way of figuring out the pattern without having a whistleblowing intern from Getty onboard here to reveal some of the inner workings. I'm looking forward to the day when that finally happens. Surely, there's at least one disgruntled former intern out there who reads this forum who would like to make up for the pain he/she caused others while working in Getty's "extortion" "compliance" department.

[SoylentGreen]

I often think that Getty has it's employees sign a confidentiality agreement upon hire.
Their operation hasn't has any interesting leaks that might reveal Getty's inner-workings.

S.G.