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Getty Images Letter Forum / Extortion Letter from LCS
« on: December 18, 2015, 12:59:33 AM »
So not sure if anyone else has ran into this one but I got notice from LCS about having to pay for usage of an image on a site I built for a friend of mine.  Well after finding what they claimed was copied was roughly 10% of the original image, a tree got taken out of the image and used in a WordPress theme that is still published in the WordPress repository.  But authors of themes and plugins have to publish there code under GPL which im my eyes makes the author of the plugin liable for any copyright ingrigments.  As my license was GPL and used in good faith that all content was covered under that license.

Funny thing the email about the infridgement came after the site had already been down for a few months.  So not only was the image from a WordPress.org repository theme but it also was since removed from the web.

Wondering what other peoples thoughts on this are?

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