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Getty Images Letter Forum / RM Getty Images in wordpress theme I bought. Help!
« on: May 23, 2017, 11:57:57 AM »
Hi,
My name is teresa and I had a little bit different problem here. I’m a web designer and I’m working on a website right now. I bought a wordpress theme on themeforest for this project and I wasn’t aware that the images that came in the demo site were RM Getty. I know them because I’ve been working on advertising for a long time. I rarely look for pictures in their site, since they are so expensive and my very small clients can’t afford a $500 picture. Even though I‘m still working on the site I had it live because it easier to show my client the process. Yes I know, I won’t have a site in development live ever again. I don’t use theme images for final sites, but it is nice to have something to hold the place until client sends the real one. I only kept one in about us page for layout purposes. The picture was of some vegetables with no persons in it. I didn’t think this was going to be an issue since I bought the theme and I was going to replace the picture anyways. Long story short my client got the “getty letter”. That was fast! My first instinct was to contact getty and tell them about how is not my client fault and it is my responsibility, and I didn’t meant to use a picture from them. I wouldn’t knowingly use any of their pictures. I would have found a very similar for $10 in Royalty Free sites. I’m confused and don’t know what to do. I feel very bad for my client and also is not good for business when things like this happen. What do you think I should do?
My name is teresa and I had a little bit different problem here. I’m a web designer and I’m working on a website right now. I bought a wordpress theme on themeforest for this project and I wasn’t aware that the images that came in the demo site were RM Getty. I know them because I’ve been working on advertising for a long time. I rarely look for pictures in their site, since they are so expensive and my very small clients can’t afford a $500 picture. Even though I‘m still working on the site I had it live because it easier to show my client the process. Yes I know, I won’t have a site in development live ever again. I don’t use theme images for final sites, but it is nice to have something to hold the place until client sends the real one. I only kept one in about us page for layout purposes. The picture was of some vegetables with no persons in it. I didn’t think this was going to be an issue since I bought the theme and I was going to replace the picture anyways. Long story short my client got the “getty letter”. That was fast! My first instinct was to contact getty and tell them about how is not my client fault and it is my responsibility, and I didn’t meant to use a picture from them. I wouldn’t knowingly use any of their pictures. I would have found a very similar for $10 in Royalty Free sites. I’m confused and don’t know what to do. I feel very bad for my client and also is not good for business when things like this happen. What do you think I should do?