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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Letter Received But No Such Image

« on: July 23, 2013, 01:45:13 PM »

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

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Letter Received But No Such Image

« on: July 23, 2013, 01:10:49 PM »

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

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Letter Received But No Such Image

« on: May 03, 2013, 04:04:19 PM »

More on this ... turns out the image was on my server but not being displayed. 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.

Mike

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Letter Received But No Such Image

« on: May 02, 2013, 07:00:22 PM »

Just got another letter, "Fedex - Urgent". Turns out the image was on my site, sort of. It was an album cover, my website is devoted to promoting music, but had text added and color added so it's not the exact image, I'm wondering if that has any effect? The tone of the letter was amiable, not threatening in any way. I removed the image and wrote back.

Mike

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Letter Received But No Such Image

« on: April 20, 2013, 01:33:53 PM »

Got the 2nd letter dated exactly one month after the 1st. It referenced the first letter and said they were "willing to offer me one last chance to resolve the claim". It also said to contact them immediately if I believed I had received the letter in error. I sent them a letter to that effect.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Letter Received But No Such Image

« on: March 22, 2013, 06:35:59 PM »

I'm wondering how you think I should proceed. I thought I would wait to see if I get a second letter, I've read that they have sent out hundreds of thousands of these letters, I'm thinking they will concentrate on those that respond. Or do you think I should reply now?

Mike

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Letter Received But No Such Image

« on: March 21, 2013, 09:11:29 PM »

When you receive a letter like that it makes you wonder ...

Mike

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Letter Received But No Such Image

« on: March 21, 2013, 07:09:37 PM »

But how do I prove it? They send a letter with no proof, just a photo with no link and a threat.

Mike

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Letter Received But No Such Image

« on: March 21, 2013, 12:36:17 PM »

My site has hundreds of links, could the bot have found the image on one of those sites?

Mike

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Letter Received But No Such Image

« on: March 19, 2013, 08:33:25 PM »

I checked, besides doesn't it have to be displayed in order for me to be guilty?

Mike

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Letter Received But No Such Image

« on: March 19, 2013, 04:33:56 PM »

I do run ads but they are all music ads. The image they provided in the letter is of a bird escaping a cage which I have never seen before and doesn't have much to do with music.

Mike

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Letter Received But No Such Image

« on: March 19, 2013, 03:59:25 PM »

I recently received the letter from Getty Images including the supposed image but there is no such image on my site. There must be a lot of these "false positives" if a bot is being used to identify these images, but I haven't seen anything here or on the web about such case. I'm wondering if anyone has had this happen and if they contacted Getty Images about it.

Mike