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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty extortion letter. Picking peoples brains

« on: June 27, 2013, 05:24:52 PM »

Don't forget if they have sent you a snapshot of your website showing the image, they have also infringed your copyright for content, design and layout.

Now that's a copyright infringement and I'd bet you could prove how much they benefitted from it! (exactly the amount they are trying to extort). I'm sure everybodys terms and conditions state no copying, storage, reproduction or exploitation for gain!

So you are dragged over hot coals for an image accidentally obtained by mistake but they purposefully and with full intent and flagrancy took a copy of your website and infringed it.

Oh my days!

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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I Might Just Help Getty!

« on: June 26, 2013, 05:21:21 PM »

I honestly didn't know i used so many exclamation marks :/

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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / I Might Just Help Getty!

« on: June 26, 2013, 05:18:41 PM »

Now that I've got your attention, perhaps not helping in the way you were thinking.

Lets see, Getty is all up for the photographer right. They are being swindled out of thousands of $/£ for lost royalties and lets face it, its all about the photographer isn't it, not the 80% cut (100% if you don't actually tell the photographer).

So being clever folks, why can't we help those poor photographers (and I don't mean that in a derogatory manner - without them we would be screwed for good quality images lets face it!). All we need to do is devise a way to check for Getty that their images are not being used on peoples sites and if they are email them and get them to take them down before Getty does.

As I said, its not about the lost revenue is it Getty, its about protecting copyright and this would help!

The ironic thing is that our job would be much easier than Getty's shitbot, or whatever it was called - I honestly can't remember but it ended in a bot. I'm pretty sure with Getty's library as a starting point and Google - the worlds favourite and lets face it, most pervasive search engine, at hand it wouldn't be too difficult to narrow the results for each image down, scrape the screens for email or addressing info and let them know.

Its all that Getty are doing, except we wouldn't be infringing the website owners content by copying it and posting it to them!

The job would be quite efficient because there are a finite number of Getty images and a finite number of Google search results for each. Far better than Gettys position of finite images but almost infinite sites!

Lets face it, we can get to the moon, we can cut off pretty big revenue stream here - and legally!

Thoughts?? Rational or otherwise lol x

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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Is your Getty letter legal?

« on: June 25, 2013, 03:10:18 PM »

Hi People
Got my letter on 23rd June 2013. Was dated 17th June by them.

Again no company number, no VAT number and VAT charged at 23%. wtf!

I won't even reply then. Why would they make such an obvious blunder?
I'm thinking to myself, how does this benefit them..... must be a reason I haven't yet thought of, like can't be counter sued!?