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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty images Letter about a image on a clients website

« on: January 29, 2015, 05:40:49 PM »

If any one is interested, my client insisted that i try and settle with getty directly.
Its a good client so i did,I called getty on the phone to negotiate and they offered to settle for about half their original demand. Paid it just to be done with this mess.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / How exactly is proof of images on your website logged?

« on: December 16, 2014, 12:53:46 PM »

You remove a image from your website after receiving a letter, you ignore them.
Years pass, what proof do they have other than a easy alterable jpeg of your website?

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty images Letter about a image on a clients website

« on: December 15, 2014, 03:35:08 PM »

Sorry i should have made it more clear after my first post, I'm not considering that route any longer.

Weather it matters or not but i would not be giving them my name or any kind of information. Just making it seem like i'm someone who works for him in his office calling to settle. His office happens to have a lawyer..
Ultimately I would be hiring the lawyer on behalf of the client, but they wouldn't know.

I'm also considering suggesting to ignore it until he receives any thing else, i'm not certain at this point if this was a email, letter, certified letter or what from getty.
So if it wasn't a certified letter...

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty images Letter about a image on a clients website

« on: December 15, 2014, 10:58:07 AM »

Thanks for the advice. I'm leaning toward the letter writing program but i am curious if calling them first could do any harm?
Heres how the call would go something like " Hi, i'm calling on behalf of client name, on case # code# etc etc. I offer 100 to settle this issue, i feel this is a reasonable amount, you have 7 days to change the online payment or i turn this entire issue over to my lawyer."

thoughts ?

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Getty images Letter about a image on a clients website

« on: December 08, 2014, 09:05:57 PM »

Hi Everyone, A Client of mine recently got one of those emails from getty with the 5pdf attachments.
Ultimately wanting $520 for using one of their images thumbnail size @ 250x150  on a informational blog.

I manage this website for him and post the blogs.
Is there a way to transfer the responsibility of this from my client to me? (he has the website registered to him)
I would rather deal with this personally than having to send messages for my client to send to them, etc

Thanks!