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Getty Images Letter Forum / How many corporations get these?
« on: October 09, 2013, 02:10:31 PM »
I'm curious how many of the parties receiving these letters are businesses that appear to have legal departments. We are a micro-corporation -- two people operating out of a cheap apartment. Like many here, we made an honest mistake and are now on the receiving end of threatening letters. It started with Getty and now McCormack. They're not asking for very much, but it's more than we have.
Were we just individuals we wouldn't be so worried. But we're not. We are a registered corporation and we responded to McCormack via email from a legal@... address. We never admitted to anything nor denied it -- simply asked for proof like so many others have done.
Our concern is that we may have hurt our position with our posturing, giving McCormack the impression we're bigger than we truly are. McCormack now knows the address they have for us is valid, they know we are a corporation, and they know we seem to have legal staff.
Should we be worried? The only other small business I know of who received one of these just paid it as they felt they'd lose more money by fighting. If we had the cash we would do the same, but we don't.
Were we just individuals we wouldn't be so worried. But we're not. We are a registered corporation and we responded to McCormack via email from a legal@... address. We never admitted to anything nor denied it -- simply asked for proof like so many others have done.
Our concern is that we may have hurt our position with our posturing, giving McCormack the impression we're bigger than we truly are. McCormack now knows the address they have for us is valid, they know we are a corporation, and they know we seem to have legal staff.
Should we be worried? The only other small business I know of who received one of these just paid it as they felt they'd lose more money by fighting. If we had the cash we would do the same, but we don't.