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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Contacting getty before receiving a letter

« on: July 25, 2012, 01:32:01 PM »

you might want to watch all of Jonathan Kliens videos, he may have stated this somewhere along the line..he's been known to stick his foot in his mouth from time to time..

Where does Getty claim that about 85% of all images violate copyright? I'd like to have the source of that for something I'm writing. Thanks.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: An Experiment Against Getty

« on: July 25, 2012, 01:30:08 PM »

@ Greg, already ahead of you..it appears that they direct the complaints to the BBB, the HA AG site is pretty cheesy, and I could not find an area in which to request records..doen't mean it isn't there buried somewhere tho..

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Contacting getty before receiving a letter

« on: July 25, 2012, 09:26:24 AM »

As long as you took down the images. don't contact them!!! check at archive.org to make sure it's not there..I think they only use archive.org to look back once picscout reports an image back to them... You're probably good to go, but if you do here from them tell them to take a walk, as you were proactive and removed the images before they even knew they were there..

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Legal Controversies Forum / Wedding Photographer Who Did A Great Job Threatened with 300k Lawsuit

« on: July 25, 2012, 08:08:52 AM »

you have to hear this letter!! I think it's from someone from Washington, but the attorney's name has not been mentioned..

The guy doing the video is Gary Fong a world famous photographer...it sounds like a Carreon Letter, even McCormack wouldn't go this far!!

Look at the comments, Matt Inman and oatmeal are mentioned.

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Legal Controversies Forum / Kirstie Alley Sued Over Weight-Loss Supplement

« on: July 24, 2012, 09:13:27 PM »

yeah I know off topic..

The former Fat Actress star also said during appearances on QVC and in online promotional materials that a weight-loss product called Organic Liaison helped her drop 100 pounds.
But now a disgruntled dieter has taken it upon herself (and whoever wants to join her would-be class-action suit) to prove that Alley and the supplement maker have engaged in "nothing more than a healthy deception" to get people to buy their product—and that Alley literally danced her butt off.

http://www.eonline.com/news/332544/kirstie-alley-sued-over-weight-loss-supplement?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories

This may tick of some folks, but everyone should these "supplements", diet plans" are all gimmicks, for christs sake if you want to loose weight hows about this:
EAT LESS & MOVE MORE

end of rant...carry on

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Photo Attorney Leslie J. Burns Extortion Letter Scam Hits "Ripoff Report"

« on: July 24, 2012, 08:38:43 PM »

THIS>
they're just that greedy and hoping to cash in while they can.

Yeah it's never a good sign when a new lawyer right out of the gate is getting that kind of negative attention. I don't know if these new lawyers are just that naïve and don't research what's happening to these other trolls or if they're just that greedy and hoping to cash in while they can.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Photo Attorney Leslie J. Burns Extortion Letter Scam Hits "Ripoff Report"

« on: July 24, 2012, 07:27:45 PM »

Posted on July 19th 2012...New lawyer for photo Attorney Carolyn Wright, Leslie Burns, now has an entry on the site "Ripoff Report", while i don't like or endorse this site because of their sleazy practises, I will say this cannot be good for a new lawyer, and I'm sure leslie Burns is none to happy about it..but oh well, she made the choice of getting into this game..

Photo Attorney Leslie J. Burns Extortion Letter Scam Settlement Demand Letter Attorney Carolyn E. Wright Sending out extortion letters Settlement Demand letters and emails La Mesa, California

Phototake, a stock photo agency we have not come across before, has hired one of the lawyers from Photo Attorney, Carolyn E. Wright’s law firm. California newbie attorney Leslie Burns has put her signature to the previously reported Photo Attorney Extortion Letters.

http://www.ripoffreport.com/photo-attorney-lesli/attorneys-legal-services/photo-attorney-leslie-j-burns-0ff12.htm

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Recieved a demand letter today

« on: July 24, 2012, 11:28:16 AM »

ah you beat me to it!!
it's one thing to "read the law" which differs from understanding it!

This section refers to the third party liability of service providers.

The best defense against Getty has always been their lack of legal standing in regards to ownership of the actual content.
If they won't provide proof of their claims, tell them to piss off.
It's easy...  it doesn't need to be difficult.

Read the forum, guys.

S.G.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Recieved a demand letter today

« on: July 24, 2012, 11:24:07 AM »

This portion of the law relates directly to a "service provider" and not directly to the infringer..in other words if you were hosting your site with me, and you improperly used a copyrighted image, YOU would be responsible, not me as I am only the service provider.. Chances are good you will get another letter at some point..

It's my opinion that everyday people should never try to out lawyer them by quoting specific areas of the law, it can be confusing and come back to bite you..

I plan on not responding to any of their letters, What would be the end result If I totally ignore their letter?

    I received “the letter” from Getty and here’s what I did. I looked up the US internet copyright rules at:

    http://copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html

    and click on “§ 512. Limitations on liability relating to material online” Go to about the 6th page of this document where it says:

    (g) REPLACEMENT OF REMOVED OR DISABLED MATERIAL AND LIMITATION ON OTHER LIABILITY.—
    (1) NO LIABILITY FOR TAKING DOWN GENERALLY. — Subject to paragraph (2), a service provider shall not be liable to any person for any claim based on the service provider’s good faith disabling of access to, or removal of, material or activity claimed to be infringing or based on facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent, regardless of whether the material or activity is ultimately determined to be infringing

    I sent this to Getty with a cover letter telling them to read the friggin law and don’t contact me again. Haven’t heard from them. DON’T FALL FOR THIS EXTORTION !!!

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Who owns the copyright GI US or one of their international Affiliates

« on: July 24, 2012, 11:03:37 AM »

This is part of the reason, why Getty rarely files suit...they have weak cases at best with shoddy or no registrations, no exclusive contracts...

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Recieved a demand letter today

« on: July 24, 2012, 11:01:34 AM »

Welcome the world of make believe and merry go rounds!

@ Mike you mention template, are you referring to a template from template monster? IF so TM settled with Getty and will supposedly handle this for you as part of the settlement agreement..

It was not purchased from Template Monster, but was purchased from some company, I don't remember which one, it's been so long ago.

Getty found part of their image in a image of a template displayed on my website. That's just crazy.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Recieved a demand letter today

« on: July 24, 2012, 08:34:55 AM »

yup...since they are so organized, they would send out letter to template monster customers..if the customers did not know any better, they would collect, while they already collected on the settlement.. They would also try to collect if the TM customer did not have a receipt in hand.
It's always guilty until proven innocent with Getty Images.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Recieved a demand letter today

« on: July 24, 2012, 07:23:52 AM »

@ Mike you mention template, are you referring to a template from template monster? IF so TM settled with Getty and will supposedly handle this for you as part of the settlement agreement..

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: An Experiment Against Getty

« on: July 23, 2012, 07:50:37 PM »

While doing some online research on my Getty penpal buddy Douglas J. Bieker I came across this page posted by someone else who seems a little irritated with Mr. Bieker. This makes me feel better as I did not want to think I was unfairly singling him out  

http://www.appleseedcommunications.com/pages/publicrelations.html

nice find, but I must say the author of this page was way to kind!...maybe i'll do a little rooting around, see what I can come up with in regards to Mr Bieker

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Recieved a demand letter today

« on: July 23, 2012, 07:34:50 PM »

would be better if you emailed the letter and screen capture to Matthew, he'll redact your personal information, then we can all comment on it, and have it in our document library..

I looked through all 1600 images on my site and can not find it anywhere.

Is it ok to post a screen shot of the screen shot they sent me?