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Getty Images Letter Forum / Getty & Collection Agencies

« on: June 27, 2012, 10:43:09 PM »

I'm just curious to know how often Getty submits their claims to collection agencies?
I've seen it mentioned a few times. In my case i'm pretty obviously innocent but it sounds like it wouldn't matter.
I'm planning to fight no matter what but was just curious if they often submit smaller cases to collection or let them drop if you keep resisting.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Recieved a demand letter today.. What do you think of my response?

« on: June 26, 2012, 02:12:26 AM »

Well lucky me I got a letter from Getty demanding about 1k for 1 image.
As far as I can tell i'm innocent since it appears to be from data pulled from another affiliate network, either amazon or another one.
I responded the below BEFORE I found this forum.. so curious what you guys think of what I said and what they might respond.
It's good to know this community is here and some of the options going forward to fight this.

My letter:
I received a letter from your company claiming unauthorized use of an
image (Case xxxxxx).
Assuming the image was in fact viewed on my site, since you did not
provide a url - the only place that image could have appeared is inside an
iframe of a product page pulled from amazon.com (via an amazon affiliate
proxy feed).
Therefor the image was not hosted by my site in any way and you have no
legal claim against our company.

Unless you provide other evidence to the contrary I consider this matter
closed.