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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I Want to Sign Up for the Oscar Defensive Letter Program - Where?

« on: October 14, 2014, 02:39:06 AM »

Excellent! Thank you very much. That is all I needed to know.

Funny how one gets used to paying for everything up front online.

I appreciate your taking the time especially since it had to be almost 1:am there 

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I Want to Sign Up for the Oscar Defensive Letter Program - Where?

« on: October 14, 2014, 12:41:45 AM »

Thanks Matthew but that is the same page I referenced in my original post.

... where it says:

To sign up for the Defense Letter Program, scan your copy of the Settlement Demand Letter and email it with your written request to: [email protected]. Or you can use FAX.  Please FAX your Contact Information (email address & phone number) and your copy of the Settlement Demand Letter to: 516-741-3223.
Please allow the staff two (2) business days for someone to respond to your request. If you do not receive a response or need to follow-up on a case, call Oscar’s assistants (Susan, Jeffery, or Jonathan) at 516-741-3222.

So it is not clear as to how or where I pay Oscar's Firm.

Will I be told when they follow up with me?

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Protecting Assets in face of possible pro-Getty judgement

« on: October 13, 2014, 11:59:25 PM »

2 Grand Pikers

I'm new here with a new DL I'm trying to figure my way through, but after 3 days of reading everything I could find here and watching hours of videos, I'm going for the Oscar Defend Letter Program straight off.

I'm no attorney but I would have to imagine any of the moves you through out there -

i.e. moving from DBA/Sole Proprietorship to LLC,  etc. to protect your assets . . .

. . . Would probably have to be done not only prior to the judgement itself but before they actually file the suit.

I'm just spit balling here but from what I've read here on the forum, your amount kind of falls between the amounts that people ignore GI and get away with it (Less than $700 - generalizing here) and the amounts they have sued and gotten judgments for ($4,000+) so maybe the only chance you have is to get an attorney at this point and in calling around So/Cal $350/hour is the least expensive I could find.

So maybe an Oscar letter defense letter program would be a last ditch effort, but from what I've also seen, that may not even work.

Somehow these over the top trolls have to be stopped though.

It is absolutely ridiculous that a person can innocently drop a couple of thumbnail images on a site and 2 years later be worrying about losing their house, savings, car, retirement etc.

I wish you all the best and hope things work out for you.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / I Want to Sign Up for the Oscar Defensive Letter Program - Where?

« on: October 13, 2014, 10:23:58 PM »

I'm New Here. And glad to be here 

I have a client that I inadvertently put a supposedly Getty Image on one page of their blog pages (Not main site pages).

The image has of course been removed. That includes the actual image and all the other sizes the WP theme creates as it is a Desktop, Tablet, Mobile Responsive Theme. (For those of you that read this and know you only had one image on your site in question, but GI is trying to ding you for multiple images, know that your site software, WordPress, Joomla or whatever may have made additional copies in different sizes when you uploaded the original.)

The size was what I consider a thumbnail, the letter demanded just under $700.00 and on the Photographers site he is selling it for less than $60.00. Extortion? Maybe, maybe not. Vastly over valued? Definitely.

I don't want my client to have to go through all this crap for my screw up (Actually one of my virtual assistants screw ups but that is another story). They have agreed Oscar's Defense Letter Program is the way to go for now. BUT . . .

I went to the Defense Letter Program Page and there only appears to be an email address to email documents to but no link to a payment page.

Can someone direct me to where to pay for the Defense Letter Program? OR...

Is it a situation of sending the information to be reviewed and accepted before money changes hands.

Either way I would like to know.

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