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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New Pixsy letter

« on: April 14, 2017, 02:00:52 PM »

This photo was taken at a show back in 2015, so it is way past this 90 days. It looks like waiting it out might be my best option, from all my reading in this forum it looks like if they decide to take me to court the most they can get is the photographer's actual damages which from GettyImages a picture from the exact same show but from a different photographer is on sale for $150.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New Pixsy letter

« on: April 14, 2017, 10:33:36 AM »

Hello,

Took that into consideration, without a doubt this picture is not copyrighted. The picture they are going after is a live shot of a certain artist, the image it shows copyrighted is for a cover album and in-studio session of two completely unrelated artists. Nothing else was copyrighted under that name or address.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New Pixsy letter

« on: April 14, 2017, 08:06:01 AM »

Correct, name came up for other works but nothing related to this particular celebrity. I also found his address and it matches the copyrighted record, so I'm 100% the name I found on the Copyright database is him.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New Pixsy letter

« on: April 13, 2017, 10:31:45 PM »

I did a Copyright search and this particular image is not copyrighted.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New Pixsy letter

« on: April 13, 2017, 11:49:18 AM »

When does the SOL date start? My first notice was Nov 2016, however the picture was taken and first published in September 2015.

Has anyone here dealt with Pixsy before?

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New Pixsy letter

« on: April 13, 2017, 09:32:38 AM »

DavidVGoliath,

I totally get your point, and I also get the photographers point. I'm just trying to see my options and if someone has dealt with anything like this directly. I need to get ideas on how to proceed here without spending over $500 (which I don't have to begin with) on a picture that no one ever saw and I made $0 on.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / New Pixsy letter

« on: April 12, 2017, 11:46:12 AM »

Hello everyone,
I've read this forum and I want to share what's happening to me. Last year I ran a celebrity fan site, the site was a complete failure to be honest and at the end of the year I got an email from Pixsy about one picture, they specified the photographer, the URL of the image of where it was originally posted (this was a flickr gallery) and the URL of where I posted it. I went to the photographer's URL and I didn't find any images of this particular celebrity. Then I searched my website for the filename and I didn't find it either. I ignore the email and my hosting came up for renewal so I didn't renew, everything has been deleted.

Now, I just received another email, claiming that "fair market rate is about to expire", they want over $500 for an image maybe about 50 people saw since no one visited the site.

What do I do when I can't even proof that I used that image, all the server info is gone at this point. Should I contact the photographer directly? I haven't replied to the emails.