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Getty Images Letter Forum / Getty "Stone Collection" Images - Used After 2008 Registration
« on: December 27, 2010, 08:08:47 PM »
Oscar,
First of all I wanted to say thanks to you and Matthew for giving us small business owners information, courage, and strategy to handle this “Getty Image Extortion” situation, and expose their unscrupulous, pathetic, unethical business practices, of the likes never seen by me!
I have received two letters (Sept/Nov 2010) demanding payment of $1200 dollars for two images from their “Stone Collection”, and from your last audio update 10-08-11 you indicated to us that collection was registered in 2008, and you weren’t aware of litigation, and people’s situations who used those images for sites built after 2008, well mine was built by a 3rd party in 2009, and they weren’t aware the images were from Getty, or was I.
I have done extensive research from this website and many places on the internet, so I’m up-to-date on what is going on.
Also I have a attorney/friend who has written a “unsent” letter to Getty using the outline of what you use.
My question is – "What if I contacted, or we all contacted the Attorney General of the State of Washington, and our respective state’s Attorney General’s, and the FTC, and file individual complaints, or file some sort of “class action” complaints?"
Surely, it would seem to me that any Attorney General would see this as extortion of a huge multi-billion dollar corporation upon innocent small entrepreneurs.
This type of practice must be stopped!
Regards,
TSmith
First of all I wanted to say thanks to you and Matthew for giving us small business owners information, courage, and strategy to handle this “Getty Image Extortion” situation, and expose their unscrupulous, pathetic, unethical business practices, of the likes never seen by me!
I have received two letters (Sept/Nov 2010) demanding payment of $1200 dollars for two images from their “Stone Collection”, and from your last audio update 10-08-11 you indicated to us that collection was registered in 2008, and you weren’t aware of litigation, and people’s situations who used those images for sites built after 2008, well mine was built by a 3rd party in 2009, and they weren’t aware the images were from Getty, or was I.
I have done extensive research from this website and many places on the internet, so I’m up-to-date on what is going on.
Also I have a attorney/friend who has written a “unsent” letter to Getty using the outline of what you use.
My question is – "What if I contacted, or we all contacted the Attorney General of the State of Washington, and our respective state’s Attorney General’s, and the FTC, and file individual complaints, or file some sort of “class action” complaints?"
Surely, it would seem to me that any Attorney General would see this as extortion of a huge multi-billion dollar corporation upon innocent small entrepreneurs.
This type of practice must be stopped!
Regards,
TSmith