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Getty Images Letter Forum / Getty Response to my Response

« on: November 12, 2013, 05:47:51 PM »

They responded to my letter.

I simply asked to show proof of a correct registration and I received their standard response and also a renewed demand to be paid within the next 5 days. Which is well over a month from the last due date they gave me.

We don't have the kind of money they're asking ($1500 for 1 picture???), we are check to check 1 income family.  I design websites when I get the work to help make ends meet. So If they do take me to court it's not going to yield anything unless they want my house.

With that said I'm not responding any further. I probably shouldn't have responded to the last one. 

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Compilation Registration flaw?

« on: June 06, 2013, 10:17:21 PM »

Read this thread...
http://www.extortionletterinfo.com/forum/getty-images-letter-forum/masterfile%27s-copyright-registration-method-held-invalid-by-california-court/

Does this mean if the image they're questioning you about was part of a compilation and they can't tell your certain information such as date of first publish... there is a loop hole for some of us? What other information could you ask them to produce to establish that the image wasn't registered properly or yeah... I'm not sure how to pose my question but I think you understand where i'm coming from.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Got the letter...

« on: March 04, 2013, 07:41:41 PM »

Got the letter today. I have already removed the the photo and I am currently replacing all other images on my site with images from a photo pack I purchased a while back.

With that said the photographer listed has copyrights listed under Himself for a CD compilation in 2002. He has two other entries listed by Corbis in 2009 (from Auto Database). His site has a link for stock images that goes to Getty? They do not list what the copyrights are, unless i missed that on the copyright.gov website. So i guess I'm confused why I recieved a letter from Getty? Shouldn't it be Corbis?

Does this copy right being listed by Corbis weigh in on this? 

We're a small time IT (ie: my wife and I).  I don't even remember where I got it.  Usually I browse royalty free sites but I can't say it came from there.  We posted the picture in a blog entry whose category was "educational".  I know the intent in which the content was used probably doesn't change anything but figured I'd note it. We also don't have the fee, even if we wanted to pay it. It would equal 75% of what we've sold in the past three months.