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Getty Images Letter Forum / Masterfile Letter
« on: June 27, 2012, 05:16:50 PM »
A friend of mine gets a letter from Masterfile fedex and claimimg they own the copyright to two images on his site. The site was built in 2004 and the company that designed the site outsource the design to India. The company was sold over 7 years ago to a new owner. In the copyright documents MF emailed him there are 100s of Photographers listed on the copyright registration in the compilation.
Of course he took the images down. Contacted the fellow who owned the company previously and of course he put him in touch with the Indian Outsource company who made the site and used the photos. They said they got them on google and from a cd. So my friend called his lawyer, but he is so frustrated on the pettiness of this that no one was aware and certainly no one made any significant money on the sale or on his onging website.
They ask for 12K as if they are the sole reason for the success of any business on the site. It is just plain sickining that he has to go through this. He is wondering if the old owner may have liabilty, the Indian company ( good luck with that I guess) or the new owner. Should he report this to the consumer protection of the attroney general office of the state?
Thanks
Goodnesssake
Of course he took the images down. Contacted the fellow who owned the company previously and of course he put him in touch with the Indian Outsource company who made the site and used the photos. They said they got them on google and from a cd. So my friend called his lawyer, but he is so frustrated on the pettiness of this that no one was aware and certainly no one made any significant money on the sale or on his onging website.
They ask for 12K as if they are the sole reason for the success of any business on the site. It is just plain sickining that he has to go through this. He is wondering if the old owner may have liabilty, the Indian company ( good luck with that I guess) or the new owner. Should he report this to the consumer protection of the attroney general office of the state?
Thanks
Goodnesssake