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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Just Received a Cease and Desist for $975

« on: December 16, 2014, 08:44:03 AM »

The letter came from the U.S. Seattle WA. The only thing Canadian related is if I choose to do a bank transfer it requests it be sent to the Bank of America located in Toronto Ontario, otherwise it's mail a cheque to Seattle.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Just Received a Cease and Desist for $975

« on: December 15, 2014, 08:10:08 PM »

Haha very perceptive, our company is located in Canada  .

I think not responding is what we will go with unless it makes a difference due to me being located in Canada.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Just Received a Cease and Desist for $975

« on: December 15, 2014, 06:16:37 PM »

I'm not sure if he's a minor (he's not my nephew). I've only met him a few times but he's in university so I assume he's older than 18.

Yes it's Getty Images that sent the letter.

I'm just wondering what step I should take in this matter since the domain isn't registered to our business, nor did we hire this young man (no money exchanged).

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Just Received a Cease and Desist for $975

« on: December 15, 2014, 04:29:29 PM »

The domain name isn't associated with our business at all.  The web address is ourcompanyname.com however if you look up the address on whois.domain it's the nephews name.  We never paid or had a contract for him to make our website.  Technically we don't own the website, domain, hosting or anything to do with the website.  It's just a business page he made for us.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Just Received a Cease and Desist for $975

« on: December 15, 2014, 03:59:39 PM »

Hi,

After reading through some posts I just thought I'd ask a few question regarding this Cease and Desist letter.  I opened a little business about a month ago and the website has been up for maybe 2-3 weeks (It's still not finished, some pages are just blank with text on them).  My employees nephew made the website for us for free and actually bought the domain/hosting/wordpress and it's in his name.  We never actually approved the website nor did we have a contract or anything.  He was just doing it to be nice and we do appreciate it (even with this letter).

We asked him to remove the image today (completely off the website/server) and I'm wondering if we are liable or if we should just ignore it?