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Oscar, thank you for that detailed answer. Very much appreciated!

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I really like this guy too. His full reply to the court made for wonderful reading.

I have a question for Oscar in this regard. Oscar, do federal judges read a self-defended written argument as attentively as they do written arguments from members of the bar? Or do lay people have two strikes against them from the get go because they decided to argue their own cases?

After asking my question, I did a little research on my own and found "A Manual for Pro Se Litigants before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York." I've downloaded the pdf but haven't yet read it. The download link is here:

http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/file/forms/pro-se-litigants-manual

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Getty and McCormack would never go for this kind of sensible model because they want $875 per image instead of $8. They could care less about long-term customer loyalty and additional sales because with Getty's prices they're not going to make many sales anyway.

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I come back and will continue to come back because of the people here on the forum. With the exception of my education in the school of hard knocks, I've never learned so much from a single source as I have from this forum. And I continue to learn more on most visits to ELI.

I also feel an obligation to stick around to help others who get their first letter from Getty Images or their first letter from that copyright troll and collection agent Timothy B. McCormack (who is way over his head when it comes to writing standard English form letters that aren't full of third grade errors) and his apparently semi-literate band of paralegals like Ashanti A. Taylor who have never noticed all the goofy and careless mistakes in the payment extraction form letters coming out of McCormack Intellectual [sic] Property Law.

Getty, McCormack, and his ilk cause a LOT of pain to honest and thoughtful human beings who in most likely 99% of the cases innocently use thumbnail images. By blustering and threatening and twisting outdated copyright laws, Getty, McCormack, and their band of minimum wage goons have undoubtedly caused many sleepless nights, if not panic attacks and worse. I consider behavior that affects fellow human beings in such a negative way an unconscionable moral crime, and I've made it part of my life's work to never let up on these foul creatures until they disappear back into the sewers from which they crawled, slimy and covered with shit and reeking of greed and lust for money they haven't earned by the sweat of honest labor.

I'm also here because I admire Matt and Oscar's courage and integrity. When one finds jewels like Matt and Oscar hosting a public service website like ELI, it become an obligation to help keep those jewels polished so they can reflect light into the grim darkness that composes the world of image copyright extortion.

I'm here because I admire Robert's humor and his passion for the task of stopping these extortion letters and exposing and publicizing those who send them.

I'm here because SG keeps me grounded and focused on learning more about copyright law and its proper application to image cases.

I'm here because Jerry stays on an even keel and succinctly provides some of the best advice available for new letter recipients.

I'm here because of Greg's sense of right and wrong, and the white fire he has stoked in himself to put an end to what the trolls are doing.

I'm here because Peeved brings a smile to my face with her comments and observations and contributions.

So, yes, Matt, I'll come back.

I'll come back because one always comes back to places that feel like home.

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Robert, like you, the good folks at Tabberone.com know how to describe copyright and trademark Nazis, as well as illiterate lawyers and collection agents like Seattle's self-proclaimed intellectual property maven Timothy B. McCormack, a man who can't even proofread and correct the many errors in the form letters he and his apparently semi-literate paralegal Ashanti A. Taylor apparently send out by the hundreds.

I'm glad you liked the site. It's a treasure trove for those who want to beat the trolls at their own game.

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Thanks for the reply Robert. I thought it was pretty insane myself. This portion of my website was created by a student. Goes to show you no good deed goes unpunished. I'm not so much pissed as much as it is a hassle. Should he try and take it to trial any thoughts?

Workcrew, if he were stupid enough to file, and if I were you, I would immediately file for a declaratory judgment, using the wealth of information found on ELI, as well as the tactics found on a fabulous site, where non-lawyers have successfully defeated huge corporations by filing a motion for declaratory judgment:

http://www.tabberone.com/Trademarks/trademarks.shtml

Tabberone.com is one of my favorite resource sites, and I really admire the people who run it because they refuse to sign confidentiality agreements when they make the large corporations cave in. To quote from their "about" box:

We are not lawyers but we have represented ourselves in federal court against multi-billion dollar companies and won 80% of them. The content here is not presented as legal advice but as opinion and a result of what we have learned in these battles and from extensive research.

Of particular interest to me was the description of how they out-Disneyed the lawyers at Disney Enterprises. Read all about it at...

http://www.tabberone.com/Trademarks/DisneyLawsuit/DisneyLawsuit.shtml

These folks are heroes in my book, and anyone interested in copyright or trademark law should take the time to read every word on their site.

Well into my second year of playing the payment extraction game with Getty and McCormack, my personal opinion now is that (if one has the time, energy, and interest in doing it) going after trolls and defeating them in court (signing NO confidentiality agreement after winning a declaratory judgment and making all of the paperwork public when it's over) makes the most sense and would pay off bigger in both the short and long terms.

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Love the music... I kept looking behind my chair to see if a crocodile with drooling open jaws was trying to sneak up behind me to extract payment from the once firm and hot -- but now wide and soft -- Mulligan buns.

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I don't think copyright troll and collection agent Timothy B. McCormack of Seattle would have time to correct the errors in the payment extraction letters coming out of the offices of other lawyers collection agents. Indeed, judging from recent postings here on the forum from other McCormack letter recipients, McCormack and his paralegal trolls like Ashanti A. Taylor still haven't bothered to clean up the mistakes in their current series of form letters.

I don't understand why the legal honchos at Getty Images don't get on McCormack's ass over these unprofessional form letters. If I were paying a big percentage out to some lawyer payment extraction collection agent and calling that person my "outside counsel," you can be damn sure I'd require that the letters going out were at least proofread to a professional standard that would pass muster with someone who had been educated to a seventh grade level, minimum.

But then several of the letters I received from Getty's minimum wage "compliance specialist" have also been riddled with typos and spelling errors, as well as legal representations so egregiously wrong that a tenth grade high school student with a low B average could see through them.

McCormack and the other copyright trolling bottom feeders certainly prove that you don't have to be educated or competent with the English language to earn a living in the payment extraction business.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Did I mess up?
« on: November 08, 2012, 01:59:51 PM »
Steph, I received McCormack's "final chance" letter several months ago, and I ignored it because they had failed to show any proof of a right to demand any money. I posted on ELI the sort of reply I would have sent if I'd wanted to waste my time writing to these payment extraction artists, and you can read that reply here:

http://www.extortionletterinfo.com/forum/getty-images-letter-forum/mccormack-office-is-in-potential-trouble-again-over-%27last-chance%27-letter/msg10159/#msg10159



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What a shame we don't have an open judicial system in this country where every law suit filed results in a document that publicly reveals the precise settlement, regardless of whether or not the case went to trial.

If I were running things (and my blushing bride of multiple decades says, "Mulligan, thank God you are NOT running things!"), you can be damn sure there would be no more confidentiality agreements or sealed records where law suits and settlements were concerned.

The Mulligan "Pull Back the Curtain" Law would be simple: Once you file a law suit, the results (settlement without trial or trial settlement itself) are made part of the public record. Period. End of story.

Think how much lawyer, political, and corporate bullshit would come to an end if we actually had an honest system that revealed the way so many of these self-proclaimed  "justice fighters" twist laws to extract money for themselves as well as for their clients.

I say, "Bring all this evil shit that takes place in the dark out into the light!"

Yours for truth, justice, liberty, and returning to the Founders Concepts of an American Republic,

Mulligan

P.S. Today is election day. Only vote for candidates who support the Mulligan Pull Back the Curtain legislation! What? There are no candidates who would support such a law? Surprise, surprise.

End of Rant

By the way, all the above aside, I hope this was a complete and satisfying victory for Dr. Pasquale and Aloha Plastic Surgery.


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Another great find, Greg. Thanks for sharing this. I've added it to my file of useful resource material.

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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: graphic from another site
« on: October 26, 2012, 04:32:31 PM »
Pay nothing. To get them off your back, send a certified letter to the collection agency telling them you have incurred no debt with Getty Images, and that if they contact you again demanding payment you'll report them for harassment.

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Petition the U.S. government to change something that is benefiting corporations and the $995 an hour lawyers working for them?

That's an exercise in futility equivalent to draining the Atlanta Ocean with a straw and a single breathful of suction. IMO, of course. :)

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Excellent news! Greg, your work is much appreciated. :)

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Troll Busters
« on: October 24, 2012, 10:25:29 AM »
Holy cow!

Oops, I mean "Holy Smokes, what a group!"

Unfortunately, I can't in good conscience use "cow" in a positive context any longer since copyright trolling lawyer and collection agent goon Timothy B. McCormack has ruined that word for me with his goofy "Copyright Cow" alias.

Because of McCormack's perverse adaptation of the word, I fear "cow" is now -- and forever more will be -- associated with the word "bullshit."

Good image, Peeved!

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