Everyone needs to get up to speed on the Righthaven controversy. There are many parallels of Righthaven to Getty Images/Stock Photo industry tactics. However, the biggest difference is that (for the most part) the stock photo folks have not yet gone crazy on the Litigation front....... yet.
I am following Righthaven with great interest and all of you should too.
But from the Righthaven controversy, we get some new "vocabulary" to use for the Stock Photo Industry Demand Letters. I helped popularize the term "Extortion Letters". EFF gets credit for coining "Copyright Trolls". I just love that term, "copyright troll". I wish I came up with it.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/eff-righthaven-sham/
BTW, EFF email me to let me know that they are aware of Getty Images and the stock photo demand letters. I am fairly confident if and when Getty Images and others decide to start firing off lawsuits, EFF will enter the fray. I think EFF is simply watching and monitoring. And, they are probably following Oscar's representation on these matters.
Matthew
I am following Righthaven with great interest and all of you should too.
But from the Righthaven controversy, we get some new "vocabulary" to use for the Stock Photo Industry Demand Letters. I helped popularize the term "Extortion Letters". EFF gets credit for coining "Copyright Trolls". I just love that term, "copyright troll". I wish I came up with it.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/eff-righthaven-sham/
BTW, EFF email me to let me know that they are aware of Getty Images and the stock photo demand letters. I am fairly confident if and when Getty Images and others decide to start firing off lawsuits, EFF will enter the fray. I think EFF is simply watching and monitoring. And, they are probably following Oscar's representation on these matters.
Matthew