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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: knee-jerk reaction and responded to Getty Images

« on: November 10, 2010, 06:46:14 PM »

Yeaaa! thank you I got the email
and already sent you back a bigggg thank you!
and credit card info
and doucments-

thanks! again-
warmly,
Bonnie

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Getty Images Letter Forum / thank you in advance

« on: November 09, 2010, 01:29:44 PM »

Hi Oscar,

Thank you so very very much - being here- and thank you in advance for helping me-

I am in the process of divorce, have a special needs adopted son, and work in a unique adoption field -
with only good intentions-  I got the demand letter-and tried to ignore it - but  now contact from the atty at McCormack-

I dooooo I dooo want your letter for $150.00 and  help!!
 sorry to be a pest- I did email you and totally understand you are very very busy-
 I do want to  request your letter of help!

 I just want to confirm you will help me and that
you got the email!

and hope I can send my attachments to your email address? - and
instructions on where to send the $150.00

and what to do next!

thank you thank you thank you!

Warmly,
Bonnie
[email protected]

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Getty website says to protect their contributors-they educate unintentional infringers and to copyright their photos.

« on: November 05, 2010, 01:48:28 PM »

Hi,
I am emailing  Oscar next to  thank him for his kind help in this scary expensive Getty settlement demand extortion letter-
and find out how to send the $150.00 letter to Getty on my behalf-
meanwhile- I see on Getty's contributor site some interesting verbage-

Getty has 2 links on their site- here is the transcript of one-
scroll down- it says they find most infringement is unintentional and they "educate" and turn infringers into clients! far from the truth-
we are spreading their horrible ways to all our friends and family- and they rarely sue-!
 
http://contributors.gettyimages.com/article_public.aspx?article_id=889
http://contributors.gettyimages.com/article_public.aspx?article_id=890  tells contributors to register their pics-
http://contributors.gettyimages.com/ (bottom right hand corner link for the article below)
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Getty Images policy on unauthorized use (updated)

Thursday November 6, 2008

Getty Images considers the subject of copyright protection of the utmost importance and has an active program utilising a range of measures to deal with the issue.

We are committed to continuing to do all that we can to enforce copyright laws and ensure that both our company and our photographers and filmmakers are compensated for their work.

Getty Images has established a partnership with PicScout which enhances the monitoring and protection of Getty Images collections on the Internet and in over 2,000 magazines throughout Europe and North America. The Image Tracker™ Service enables Getty Images to monitor who is using their images and locate unauthorized uses.

The Image Tracker™ Service is the market standard for monitoring visual assets. The service applies some of the most sophisticated crawling and image recognition technology in the world, and is capable of detecting images even if they have been altered or distorted.

We also employ a team who are dedicated to ensuring worldwide copyright compliance. Their sole task is to protect copyright by tracking and pursuing copyright infringements on behalf of the company and our contributors.

When we find infringements, our experience shows that they are often unintentional. Our policy, therefore is - once the infringement has been settled to our satisfaction - to turn infringements into licenses, and infringers into customers. The process we use focuses on education, informing the client about what copyright is and where they went wrong. Our aim is to avoid legal action but we will not hesitate to use it when the need arises.

We welcome and encourage any individual or organisation with information about suspected infringements to contact us and we will deal with it in the strictest of confidence.

If you have a working relationship with Getty Images, we recommend contacting your Photographer & Filmmaker Services contact.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / patent atty advised me to settle and I responded to McCormack Getty Images

« on: November 04, 2010, 01:06:52 PM »

I had hoped Getty would leave me alone- gosh it's been 10 months!!  
but no the letters, calls, deadlines, emails with attachments- have started coming now from McCormick attorneys-
So I contacted a local patent atty who said Getty is perfectly in their rights to "troll" the internet for their intellectual property-
and that I am getting off cheap to settle now or they could take me to court in the state of their choice!

couple questions!:

1. )  REFERENCES
     Can anyone email me who has used Oscar's $150 letter?
     With that letter has anyone gotten Getty and McCormick to leave them alone-?
   OR   do all of you just wait it out- they want $7500 but may "settle" for $3700.00

2. ) HOW ABOUT THIS IDEA?
     Find someone who did pay for my same exact  pictures-
     and show proof that they paid for them so I could use them!
     (since my webdesigner said they can't find the proof that they paid for the pictures)

3.) I also just did a chat with Getty and the representative told me that if I had taken the pictures down before they found them on my own- they     wouldn't have done anything-
and that Getty pictures have no watermark- to protect it- so someone could have downloaded the pictures as a comp and then used it - that's no protection for their clients-

I asked about finding other pictures myself on my website and they said use www.tineye.com to see if my pictures were illegal-  
or I could also ask the webdesigner web dreamworks in India for the number of the image-
(if I had that - I'd have the proof he paid for them!)

I have emailed Oscar too for a reference- on someone who has successfully
used his $150.00 letter and made Getty go away for good!

  but please email me too privately,  b      [email protected]