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Legal Controversies Forum / Penny (TM) for your thoughts on this crazy story out of Canada...

« on: September 11, 2012, 11:48:12 PM »

Uh-oh a Canadian musician is in trouble with the Canadian Mint.  Apparently he used an image of the Canadian penny without permission and now the Canadian Mint wants money - $1,200.00 worth (I'd pay it in pennies).

Read the story on Yahoo Canada - Uh-oh, I said "penny" wonder who owns that copyright... apparently the Canadian Mint as they're demanding royalties from an artist.  Talk about a switcheroo!  It's usually the artist demanding money from "us".

Check it out on Yahoo Canada (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/canadian-mint-taxing-musician-using-image-penny-protest-004543564.html)


Pretty funny!

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Got a letter, now what???

« on: August 12, 2012, 07:17:23 PM »

I just rec'd a letter from Getty Images (dated Aug 9, 2012) - only rec'd it today because I checked my mail only today.

So first thing was panic, and did I ever - I think I had palpitations; then of course was sweating buckets (still am); and the constant shaking every time I just look at the letter.  Finally I told my wife, who also panicked but said pay it and lets get it over with - problem is that it's $1,275.00 CDN all from a website that was set-up as a hobby that I thought I might make a few $$ from to pay for hosting/domain name.

Then I hit Google and found this site - a lot of information, and am reading but "they" don't give you much time.

So onto my situation - I downloaded/found several images on the web and put them together as a collage.  Of course nothing is identified as being copyright and had it been known I would not have used the one single image in the header.  Image was that of a dog.  What a mistake, and something I will NEVER do ever, ever again.

First thing was to take the header down, delete all copies off the web server and to be safe shuttered the site so that I can go through all the images to ensure that nothing is copyrighted -- don't know how the hell to do that, so I'll probably just delete all the images to be safe or delete the content and start over.

Next up - how to fight them?  I saw several other posts - but "they" don't give you much time to educate yourself.

I probably will make use of the $50.00 phone call, if only to help calm the nerves and find out what my next step is.

Found ELI from another site (http://www.seotrainingsw.com/2011/09/getty-images-demand-letter/).



Will start reading the blog and viewing the videos to at least become familiar with all the lingo...