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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Received a Letter from Masterfile

« on: February 08, 2013, 07:12:05 PM »

also Bill Frymire's images were bulk registered in the US in a CD format.  This format has been called into question and will likely not hold up in court again.

Great point there!! after Masterfile took that ass beating with Chaga International, it makes it even more unlikely they would file suit over this.. did I mention what I thought of Geoffrey Beal?

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Received a Letter from Masterfile

« on: February 08, 2013, 05:11:10 PM »

Geoffrey beal is an asshole in my humble opinion... As we've told you before, they won't sue you, and if they did and they won, you have no money, they have nothing to gain either way... You've acknowledged them once and got the expected response...I generally don't advice to ignore it, but in this case i' am going to advice just that..you have nothing, apparently they only have an email address for you, so you can't be "served"....If i were in your shoes, I'd delete the email block the email address from my email progrom, and go on with life..

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty Settlement Purposes Only Letter - McCormack - Defcon 1

« on: February 08, 2013, 03:14:16 PM »

Forum,
You have inspired me to write and fight! Thanks to all contributors but especially to Greg, BuddhaPi and Mulligan along of course with Oscar and Matt . In addition to the Bar associations I'm also thinking about separate letters to Michael Berens and Ken Armstrong 2012 Pulitzer winners at the Seattle Times for investigative reporting. The paper has a long history of good journalism and truth seeking and could in fact tell a larger story of just how the issue of photo copyright infringement really works and who the real winners and losers are. Shedding light on just how the McCormack/Getty relationship really works! Stay tuned.....

Certainly a good idea with the newspaper, and a novel one, however I'd be willing to bet that that papers uses Getty images, and they won't go near it...just my 2 cents, but hell give it a shot!

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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty Submission to UK Copyright Law Consultation

« on: February 08, 2013, 10:31:49 AM »

Another example of Getty Images working to keep the governments and politicians in their pockets, so they can keep the letters going...

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty Settlement Purposes Only Letter - 3rd Letter

« on: February 08, 2013, 06:32:34 AM »

Yeah the "fee" doubles so Seattle copyright troll Timothy B. McCormack can take his share which in turn helps pay the salary of the "Mistress of Misrepresentation" Ashanti Taylor, who claims be a paralegal..As Oscar has pointed out you notice from Timothy McCormacks bio, he doesn't have many clients except for Getty, it's his bread and butter, much like Linda Ellis only has one poem to her name, hence she sends out many letters, and sells cheesy Chinese made garden gnomes.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Copyright Defense League Attempts to Squelch Settlement Agreement & Release

« on: February 07, 2013, 06:29:49 AM »

Randy Taylor from Copyright Defense League can thanks us later for yet another nice entry into the google rankings...we win on multiple levels...even Charlie Sheen would be proud of us!

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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Regarding copyright

« on: February 06, 2013, 08:36:50 PM »

Greg, thanks for the clarification, I figured it was "always", but wasn't sure. Not a huge surprise.

I've read the Advernet case -- hard going, but weirdly entertaining

Be careful BP, or you might get the disease like Greg..that boy needs treatment... 

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: information to send or not to send

« on: February 06, 2013, 01:48:43 PM »

It's interesting that McCormack didn't sign the initial form letter. I wonder if that was an oversight or it he's distancing himself even further from the paralegals who do all the work so they can take the potential hits when somebody finally stands up to these people and files a countersuit against them.

Well even if he is distancing himself, if a suit were ever filed along with a counter-suit, he would still be involved, the paralegals work for him, he is ultimately in charge of overseeing them and their behavior..at least thats how I see it..

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Righthaven Lawsuits Forum / Remember Righthaven? On appeal, copyright troll looks just as bad

« on: February 06, 2013, 11:47:15 AM »

There are second chances in life, though; and Righthaven got one yesterday. The company's new lawyer, Erik Syverson, argued that the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit should overturn Righthaven's losses in two cases: the DiBiase case, defended by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Hoehn case, defended by Las Vegas attorney Marc Randazza. Yesterday's case is the first Righthaven case to be argued at the appellate level.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/remember-righthaven-on-appeal-copyright-troll-looks-just-as-bad/

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Legal Controversies Forum / School board's desire to own copyright to students' work criticized

« on: February 05, 2013, 01:51:16 PM »

Just another WTF moment...don't ever think you've seen it all, cause we haven't....

Prince George’s considers copyright policy that takes ownership of students’ work.

Sorry, Jimmy. Your charming homework tale of holiday hi-jinx is no longer your property. This is the strange scenario concerning folks after Prince George's County Board of Education in Maryland proposed a copyright policy that would result in the board owning the work created by both staff and students at schools in the region. The Board Chair Verjeana M. Jacobs has said it's not the board's "intention to declare ownership" of work done by students. But some are wondering why a policy ostensibly meant to guard against teachers selling on lesson plans created for Prince George's County schools also covers what the students create.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/prince-georges-considers-copyright-policy-that-takes-ownership-of-students-work/2013/02/02/dc592dea-6b08-11e2-ada3-d86a4806d5ee_story.html

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: An Experiment Against Getty

« on: February 05, 2013, 06:37:59 AM »

I'm going to confirm this today, I can't believe they have 6 cd's...thats a lot more in a year or so..even if much of the info is "fluff"...

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Help from the Eli Community Needed

« on: February 05, 2013, 06:35:57 AM »

You've got my support as well! we could easily raise these funds, the hard part will be the time frame to commit.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Class action suit filed against “Getty Images Master Delegate” in Israel.

« on: February 05, 2013, 06:24:52 AM »

Agreed! Perhaps now they will be a bit more selective in whom they send letters to.. You are to be commended on your efforts.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New Topic: "ELI After Dark"

« on: February 04, 2013, 06:55:54 PM »

screw copyright!! I'm stealing this and posting it everywhere!

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: An Experiment Against Getty

« on: February 01, 2013, 08:51:17 PM »

...while Getty's position is legal, it's really unethical.

I'm surprised by the common acceptance that Getty's position is legal. They're accusing you of infringing their copyright without offering proof that they possess any such right. Who knows whether they do or not? I'm not in the US and I don't know US law, but I'd guess that if they don't have the appropriate license, the accusation and payment demand must be very illegal indeed.

It's a given that they operate unethically, and that lack of ethics could easily extend to not checking their facts before firing off a demand. It's happened before (35 times in a single case, if I remember rightly). At best, surely, their position may be legal, but without proof you can't possibly know.

valid point BeanPole...however doesn't much matter if it's legal or not, cause none of these cases ever get to court anyway...and if it did, and it was shown they ( Getty) did not own the image(s), yeah they'd be in hot water...which is a big part of the WHY they don't sue..