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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Can we just ignore the Getty Settlement demand?

« on: September 01, 2009, 06:25:40 PM »

Thank you, Oscar. The prepared letter looks good. I believe Getty will be satisfied. Best Regards.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Can we just ignore the Getty Settlement demand?

« on: September 01, 2009, 04:22:33 PM »

Thanks for your mail message, Oscar. Please inform us on the progress with the letter. Kind Regards.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Can we just ignore the Getty Settlement demand?

« on: August 04, 2009, 12:56:38 PM »

Thank you, Oscar. We really need your help, because we have received a third letter from Getty just yesterday.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Can we just ignore the Getty Settlement demand?

« on: July 21, 2009, 03:59:10 PM »

Dear Oscar, please proceed with the letter. The check has been sent as per your request. Getty had requested our action by June 19, 2009. Regards.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Can we just ingnore the Getty Settlement demand?

« on: June 23, 2009, 05:52:20 PM »

Thank you, Oscar. Getty sent the second letter already, requesting for an action by June 19, 2009. We would very much appreciate your involvement. Regards.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Can we just ingnore the Getty Settlement demand?

« on: June 15, 2009, 01:57:11 PM »

We have sent and faxed the all required documents to Oscar, and we hope to have the letter written and sent to Getty soon. Many Thanks.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Can we just ingnore the Getty Settlement demand?

« on: June 03, 2009, 03:51:54 PM »

Thank you for replying, Matthew. We believe, we clearly understand your and Oscar’s goals for starting this website, and we really appreciate your volunteer commitment and your honesty. We have been kindly contacted by Oscar already. Basically as a one-man home-based company, we really are too 'small guy' to fight directly to such an aggressive monopolist as GettyImages.  Nevertheless, we will do our best with Oscars’s and yours kind help. The main thing is we do not feel guilty by temporarily personal using a FREE downloadable StylePage© third-party web template with no commercial purposes. Therefore we didn’t know who Getty is at all.  And we do not want to know who Getty is since receiving their racketeering letter. Also we have found many other frustrated and scared people on the internet hopelessly discussing those strange ‘Getty Letters’ received by them. We just need to help ourselves and to other victims to don't be victimized by GettyImages! Thanks. DK

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Can we just ingnore the Getty Settlement demand?

« on: June 03, 2009, 11:14:05 AM »

We have carefully reviewed the two images, which Getty claimed our company has used with no license. As appeared, just two FRACTIONS (SMALL FRAGMENTS) of their original images (less than 15-25% of each) have been used in a web template issued under logo ©StylePage. We even hardly recognized those fractions, as parts of a whole image. One of our partners has downloaded this FREE template from one of FREE sources to design his personal website under our corporate web subdomain. Not ON our corporate domain! We didn’t hear the name Getty before receiving their rude, aggressive and threatening letter. Obviously if a FREE third-party web template, available on Internet, contains some fractions/fragments of any images with no Getty copyright explicitly given, how can a consumer be responsible for using or licensing it? Should a customer always make a search through all image-related companies and send them an inquiry like ‘Is this your image, by the way? It announced as free, but should I pay you?’  To me it looks just stupid. Honestly saying, what Getty business really is? To catch people who using FREE sources, available on Internet? What the law says about third-party using a small part 15-25% of Getty’s original image? Is it really same thing as using a whole one? Thanks. DK

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Can we just ignore the Getty Settlement demand?

« on: June 02, 2009, 01:21:47 PM »

We are a small software development company, and we have received a very aggressive Settlement Demand letter from GettyImages for $2,000.00 for two small parts of the images yesterday. The thing is that ALL images used in our corporate website have been legally purchased from http://www.bigstockphoto.com.  GettyImages has claimed our company to pay this $2,000.00 compensation for two small fragments of their images, placed on a private personal website, which GettyImages matches with our corporate domain. But that private domain is NOT registered as our corporate domain. Do you think we can just ignore their claim? Thanks for very valuable information, placed on your Information Website. We are ready to donate you some money, if you can give us a proper advice. Many thanks. DK