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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: My Story

« on: December 18, 2012, 06:26:11 AM »

I would let them know that you have nothing further to discuss unless proof of claim is provided and if you hear from them again you will file complaints against Getty and the shyster with the Washington State Attorney's General Office, the BBB, the FTC your Congressman and Senator as well as the Bar Association for the Shyster and Lisa Wilmer (Getty's legal beagle).

@DOC if you decide to go this route you might want to include in your letter ALL of McCormacks letters that we have to date..I think there are several letters, including 6-8 complaints to the Attorney General..I sure the Bar Association and Attorney General would like to see, many, many cases and pages at one time, in one neat package. Who knows it might just get them to take a closer look.

I would be curious to see if a letter with Greg's comments would get Timmy to go away, or if he will continue to see how many complaints he can stack up with the AG, FTC and BBB. Hard to tell with these types, but my guess is that he would get the message and send it back to Getty.

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Legal Controversies Forum / Re: Calling on Congress: Time to Fix Copyright

« on: December 18, 2012, 06:17:25 AM »

Nice to see that Greg has a great sense of humor with regard to "Mr. Non-Credible"'s remark! (See change below avatar). Btw...I am officially protesting to the change!
 

Well aren't we observant....

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: My Story

« on: December 17, 2012, 05:10:25 PM »

Yeah it was Uncle Timmy.  Sorry I should have been more specific.  I forgot how many shyster's Getty owns.

Well Timothy B. McCormack is Getty's goto collection lawyer...

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: My Story

« on: December 17, 2012, 04:50:45 PM »

I would let them know that you have nothing further to discuss unless proof of claim is provided and if you hear from them again you will file complaints against Getty and the shyster with the Washington State Attorney's General Office, the BBB, the FTC your Congressman and Senator as well as the Bar Association for the Shyster and Lisa Wilmer (Getty's legal beagle).

I like beagles, they are cute and cuddly....Lisa Wilmer??? Not so much

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Legal Controversies Forum / Re: Calling on Congress: Time to Fix Copyright

« on: December 17, 2012, 04:49:10 PM »

freak.....

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Getty Images Letter Forum / MOVED: Copyright trolls find you easily thanks to abuse of incorporation information

« on: December 17, 2012, 03:46:19 PM »

This topic has been moved to Legal Controversies Forum.

http://www.extortionletterinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=3365.0

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: My Story

« on: December 17, 2012, 03:39:58 PM »

was it ass-hat Timothy McCormack??? if it were me I would respond as Stinger suggests, but also include that you will be drafting a letter to the Washington Attorney General as well as the Washington bar Association if he continues to contact you..then follow thru with that if he contacts you again..the more people that file complaints the more likely someone will notice some day and do something about it..

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Vincent K Tylor rears his ugly troll head...again

« on: December 17, 2012, 12:08:56 PM »

Stinger, if you "share" one of my photos on facebook, the share would simply link to my photo/album...same for articles and whatnot.. I also don't think Facebook "figured it out" I think it's more of a case that Pinterest hasn't..

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: new copyright thug to add to the list?

« on: December 16, 2012, 08:13:26 AM »

Thanks Robert..I am now using pacer also..Does it show suits that are newly filed. Even if plaintiff has not been served..

Yes it does, but be warned, if you are not careful or diligent, it WILL get expensive!

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Vincent K Tylor rears his ugly troll head...again

« on: December 15, 2012, 05:29:20 PM »

Greg, the link wouldn't work because I replaced the actually .jpg name (strings of numbers and characters) with the multiple xxx to retain my client's info.

The client had me pin several hundreds of their own photographs to get more links in the search engines.

I've been tracking some of them out of curiosity and to date it doesn't appear that google loves Pinterest the way it does other social networking sites.

Google is after "content" pinterest has very little of this, images are not considered "content" by and large.. I would use caution doing this, as google may consider all these pinned images linking back to your clients site as spammy, and thus actually penalize that site.. Make no mistake link backs are important, but whats equally important is that the sites linking back have relevant content as well...just my opinion, what the hell do i know anyway?!......

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Vincent K Tylor rears his ugly troll head...again

« on: December 15, 2012, 03:31:02 PM »

I've spoken to several folks in regards to this, and as usual they don't seem to care nor are they concerned.. at this point I'm thinking it will be more of the same from the trolls. They won't actually file lawsuits, but they will send letters, and as we all know xx% of those recipients will simply pay for fear of getting sued. This I believe will lead to Pinterest users backlash, where they will loose many users, thus hurting their income. afteral just like facebook,google and the rest.. the user is the product which generates revenue.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: new copyright thug to add to the list?

« on: December 15, 2012, 03:26:28 PM »

This letter has now been added to our scribd library:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/116954544/Copyright-Demand-letter-from-Attorney-Steven-H-Mustoe-on-behalf-of-artist-Joseph-R-Tomelleri

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Vincent K Tylor rears his ugly troll head...again

« on: December 15, 2012, 02:47:49 PM »

in  a nutshell here is how pinterest works..

when i pin something to my board, pinterest "copies" that file and it is stored on pinterests servers under my account..

Pinterests TOS clearly makes pinterest out of the picture and puts the responsibility on the end user. Pinterest would be covered by DMCA safe harbor as they allow users to upload and they have a registered agent, as well as a means to report infringements.. this is all clearly spelled out, but we all know how many people actually read these terms and understand them..bottom line the ends users will start getting letters, from getty, MF Tylor and the rest of them...mark my words this is going to get ugly.. When the whole copyright/pinterest firestorm was brewing, pinterest was very quick to make changes to their policies, covering their asses, while at the same time leaving their users on the hook.. I've been proactive with my photosite and added the "no-pin tag to keep people from pinning my images ( not that anybody would want to), but even this is not fool proof..

::EDIT:: I gues I should mention "repinning" as well... much like retweeting, this add the same image to other boards, but does NOT make an additional copy, but it does lead back to the original board..for example
Greg pins the image of matthew snoring on my couch, Mulligan comes along and repins it on his board....

I find mulligans boar wih my image pinned, which leads back to Greg, so greg gets the letter demanding payment for infringement...naturally the trolls will also send mulligan a letter demanding money in the hopes that mulligan does not understand that he did nothing wrong in terms of copying..

As soon as the first suits and demand letters start surfacing, pinterests day will be numbered IMHO

more info: http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2012/02/29/a-word-of-caution-for-pinterest-users/

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Vincent K Tylor rears his ugly troll head...again

« on: December 15, 2012, 07:31:18 AM »

There does not appear to be any new suits filed by Vincent K Tylor, but it just dawned on me after re-reading my post that copyright troll Vincent K Tylor is teaching his son the ways of trolling.. His images also appear on FREE wallpaper sites.. I'm going to try to confirm whether or not Glen Carner of Hawaiian Art Network and Vincent K Tylor have gone separate ways. I hope this poster from FB visits the forum and shares her letter with us to shed more light on this..

Also we have a mention of Pinterest, knew it was just a matter of time, it's gonna be open season before long.

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Vincent K Tylor rears his ugly troll head...again

« on: December 14, 2012, 08:49:12 PM »

From Facebook:

My company received a letter from J. Stephen Street in regards to the law suit with Vincent K. Tylor and Vincent Scott Tylor images. We have been accused of using their images with their consent and have been sued for an ungodly amount of money. The images that were used were from "free" wall paper sites. A majority of the images we have been accused of using are found through our Pinterest account. All the images that they are accusing of us using have been "repined" through another user. Are they going after that person too? All of the images that are associated with my company have no watermark, have no copyright information, have nothing to indicate that this photo has been registered to a photographer. Upon receiving the papers, we have removed all of the images that we are being accused of using. What we would like to know is, is there a class action law suit against this photographer?

I've invited the poster of this to the forums..this is all I have, and I'm curious if a suit has been filed, guess i'll be going into PACER afterall!