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Getty Images Letter Forum / UPDATED: Getty Images/Memorial Day Welcome Home surprise...
« on: May 28, 2012, 10:25:45 PM »
Returned home from a Memorial Day weekend with the in-laws to find "the" letter from getty images...so here's the situation:
My wife is a web designer and currently works for a non-profit. Several years ago while she was out of work, she stored her stuff on-line as part of an online portfolio. This site doesn't make any money and is simply a resume/portfolio. On one buried page there sat six or eight screen caps of comps that had been done for something which were ultimately never used. One of these comps included an image that is probably no bigger than 1/2 an inch maximum--this is the image that is in question.
From the screen cap they sent us it is impossible to make out the image definitively as it is almost completely blurry and illegible. They are asking for almost $900.00 for this image.
I was going to call, and then everything I read said to handle this through written correspondence, so that's what I'm planning to do. I will probably write a letter letting them know that the image has been taken down include an initial payment of about $100 fair use, which they will probably reject and then follow the route that it seems so many others have followed.
Just wanted to vent and start jotting some things down, thought posting here was probably a good way to begin organizing my thoughts...thanks for listening...
My wife is a web designer and currently works for a non-profit. Several years ago while she was out of work, she stored her stuff on-line as part of an online portfolio. This site doesn't make any money and is simply a resume/portfolio. On one buried page there sat six or eight screen caps of comps that had been done for something which were ultimately never used. One of these comps included an image that is probably no bigger than 1/2 an inch maximum--this is the image that is in question.
From the screen cap they sent us it is impossible to make out the image definitively as it is almost completely blurry and illegible. They are asking for almost $900.00 for this image.
I was going to call, and then everything I read said to handle this through written correspondence, so that's what I'm planning to do. I will probably write a letter letting them know that the image has been taken down include an initial payment of about $100 fair use, which they will probably reject and then follow the route that it seems so many others have followed.
Just wanted to vent and start jotting some things down, thought posting here was probably a good way to begin organizing my thoughts...thanks for listening...