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Getty Images Letter Forum / Free Web Template Case and "Remix" Copyright Law?
« on: September 20, 2012, 05:44:13 PM »
Hello All,
I have read through many posts on the forum and pages on this site and want to first of all thank all of you for taking the time to share information and resources. Thanks!
My situation in brief: found a free template online and used it as a place holder for a domain name with literally no traffic. The only people who have ever seen the site are myself and Getty's robot. The intention was to put up a real website later.
Received a letter demanding a $1000 for the presence of one image in this template.
The image is in likely hundreds if not thousands of sites all over the net that use this same template. I have found many examples of the same template everywhere by just Googling the filler text that came with the template.
I compared the image in the template to the same image on Getty's website. The template takes the image and cuts it down by quite a bit then blends it with 2 other images to form a header image. Does this get any protection since it is a form of re-hasing or re-mixing of the original image (the same way remixed songs I believe are protected)?
I know even though it is a free template that won't help me much, but hopefully that fact that the site received zero traffic will.
Thank you so much for any insight!
Sincerely,
Eddie
I have read through many posts on the forum and pages on this site and want to first of all thank all of you for taking the time to share information and resources. Thanks!
My situation in brief: found a free template online and used it as a place holder for a domain name with literally no traffic. The only people who have ever seen the site are myself and Getty's robot. The intention was to put up a real website later.
Received a letter demanding a $1000 for the presence of one image in this template.
The image is in likely hundreds if not thousands of sites all over the net that use this same template. I have found many examples of the same template everywhere by just Googling the filler text that came with the template.
I compared the image in the template to the same image on Getty's website. The template takes the image and cuts it down by quite a bit then blends it with 2 other images to form a header image. Does this get any protection since it is a form of re-hasing or re-mixing of the original image (the same way remixed songs I believe are protected)?
I know even though it is a free template that won't help me much, but hopefully that fact that the site received zero traffic will.
Thank you so much for any insight!
Sincerely,
Eddie