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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I got a letter today
« on: December 20, 2013, 01:49:49 AM »
I enjoyed reading this article today... http://www.pdnonline.com/news/Morel-v-AFP-Copyrig-9598.shtml
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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I got a letter today
« on: December 08, 2013, 11:01:28 PM »
Given that I am unemployed, if I paid what they want than I risk losing my home; so no I have not paid them. I am afraid of what will happen if I don't pay them, I can't afford a lawyer. I am trying to makes heads and tail sense of what I am reading on this site so I can fight this. I would in no way intentionally steal from someone and of course I understand ignorance is no excuse. I don't understand how they can just lay a bill on someone without first notifying them and giving them a cease & desist letter or a chance to just stop using the image? I have read other websites and frankly I am a bit worried. I know that was the intention of their letter to scare me but from what I have read a lot of people weren't able to get Getty's Images to be reasonable and they just paid and chalked it up as lesson learned. I do appreciate your advice and I will try to read and learn on what to do. I have not contacted them yet and from what I am reading it is best to do all of it through paper mail. Thank you all again.
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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I got a letter today
« on: December 07, 2013, 01:15:04 PM »
Thank you all for your information. I will read up more here on this site. I am so glad but irked to see so many others have experience on how to handle this situation. I told my fiancé about the situation and he lost a lot of sleep over it. This is not good for his current health situation. He has never had this problem before and was just as shocked as I was. My fiancé is usually very careful with images on the web and was pretty certain when he first obtained it, that it was free to use. I have read the Getty Images has been known to scoop up images that were free to use and make them licensed to use, unbeknownst to the user who obtained it legally. That really ticks me off that a company can do that and get away with it legally. Were just trying to get our own small business going so we can pay our bills. This was such a big blow to our current financial situation.
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Getty Images Letter Forum / I got a letter today
« on: December 07, 2013, 12:59:30 AM »
Today I received a letter from Getty Images and have spent hours scouting the web on how to deal with them.
Back story is my fiancé and I started to build a business that we were never able to get started. His health took a turn and he had to move to a different climate to get his health back. We kept the website up but never established the business because we have hopes that when his health restores we can start up the business... I recently lost my job so he thought maybe now I have free time to finish what we started, so I have been trying to learn how to work the website recently and hopefully get the business going so I can maybe have an income. We don't have a business license because we were getting all of that lined up when he suddenly his health took a turn. He built the website in my name because I had a bank account and he didn't. My fiancé used images he found on Microsoft.com and the website builder he used to build the website and google images. He was pretty certain they were all free to use, unfortunately I was not part of building the website. Now I received the letter saying I must pay 965.00 for an image on our site (which I removed immediately) and they priced it based on used for Corporate or promotional use. Which it hasn't been used for either since one we aren't even making money on the website yet and two we aren't even a business yet. We kept the website up so we wouldn't lose our domain name so when we can get the business going the name will still be there. I don't understand how to figure out what the actual cost of the image is on the Getty Image website so I can try to negotiate with them since I don't have a job currently. I have read it's best to just pay the bill but see if you can get them to lower it. I don't have enough income coming from my unemployment insurance to cover the full cost what they are asking and I am not even sure if that image was even theirs to begin with. Sorry if my message seems all over the board. I am just barely staying afloat as it is and this letter is just a blow to me today... Any suggestions?
Back story is my fiancé and I started to build a business that we were never able to get started. His health took a turn and he had to move to a different climate to get his health back. We kept the website up but never established the business because we have hopes that when his health restores we can start up the business... I recently lost my job so he thought maybe now I have free time to finish what we started, so I have been trying to learn how to work the website recently and hopefully get the business going so I can maybe have an income. We don't have a business license because we were getting all of that lined up when he suddenly his health took a turn. He built the website in my name because I had a bank account and he didn't. My fiancé used images he found on Microsoft.com and the website builder he used to build the website and google images. He was pretty certain they were all free to use, unfortunately I was not part of building the website. Now I received the letter saying I must pay 965.00 for an image on our site (which I removed immediately) and they priced it based on used for Corporate or promotional use. Which it hasn't been used for either since one we aren't even making money on the website yet and two we aren't even a business yet. We kept the website up so we wouldn't lose our domain name so when we can get the business going the name will still be there. I don't understand how to figure out what the actual cost of the image is on the Getty Image website so I can try to negotiate with them since I don't have a job currently. I have read it's best to just pay the bill but see if you can get them to lower it. I don't have enough income coming from my unemployment insurance to cover the full cost what they are asking and I am not even sure if that image was even theirs to begin with. Sorry if my message seems all over the board. I am just barely staying afloat as it is and this letter is just a blow to me today... Any suggestions?
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