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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty From Start To Finish

« on: June 10, 2012, 07:47:14 AM »

Don't expect the photographer to have too much sympathy for you, as you admittedly copied his image from a book, which to me shows willful infringement.

" I ignored and I figured it would go away.  Well it did...for about 2 months and just this Friday I got a letter in the mail from their legal counsel, McCormack Intellectual Property stating that I now owe double the amount originally owed!!! - $1400!!  So I am going to ignore this letter ..."

Yeah ignore it, since it worked so well the first time.

"self-obtained source" - which clearly states somewhere on the first few page that it;s copyright, and not to copied..I must admit this is the first time we've had someone here that did this. Most users on this forum got the images they used at various places on the net and truly did not know or realize that they were copyrighted.. One would think, that anybody no matter how ignorant of copyright law  would know better than to copy an image from a book..

There are plenty of suggestions on the forum, as to how to deal with McCormack, do some digging around, or just ignore it and see if it goes away..

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Legal Controversies Forum / Re: Youtube link for Counter Notification

« on: June 09, 2012, 03:38:45 PM »

according to youtube site: [email protected]

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Legal Controversies Forum / Pinterest Hires a Googler to Serve as Head of Legal

« on: June 08, 2012, 08:00:06 PM »

As anybody in the music business can tell you, every crew needs a suit. And Pinterest just picked up a high-profile one to handle any legal issues that might crop up. Business Insider is reporting that the company has hired Michael Yang, Google deputy general counsel, to serve as as their head of legal. As BI points out, Mr. Yang has been the point man for many a controversy.

http://betabeat.com/2012/06/pinterest-google-head-of-legal-copyright/

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty From Start To Finish

« on: June 08, 2012, 04:46:21 PM »

Does this mean I can't write off my monthly pacer fees? OOPS

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty From Start To Finish

« on: June 08, 2012, 03:42:11 PM »

Looks like you paid about 535.00 too much..this is what happens when people go in un-educated and make rash decisions..do you really think they wopuld have filed suit over 1 image?? they'd be losing money they walked thru the courthouse door. Oh well another win for Getty Images..more cash to buy stamps, paper and envelopes..

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Unplanned ELI Video Update: Linda's Lyrics/Dash Poem Copyright Extortion

« on: June 07, 2012, 08:37:04 PM »

yeah this might even put Vincent K Tylor to shame! 

I just had to..

My gosh this is all over the web. Is there a blog that didn't post it. (Ok... I never posted it. But really. It's just all over the place! )

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Unplanned ELI Video Update: Linda's Lyrics/Dash Poem Copyright Extortion

« on: June 07, 2012, 08:19:48 PM »

That first video is actually Aprils, she did a hell of a job, as for the second one, I need to watch it, but my first impression from the first 30 seconds was, she looked a little "trollish"

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: What Will Glen Carner's ELI Contribution Be? No more free rides.

« on: June 07, 2012, 04:26:05 PM »

What?1 you want mulligan to expose himself?!   you dirty little peev!

Agreed!

I can't wait to see Mulligan's "Expose"!

LOL....
 

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: What Will Glen Carner's ELI Contribution Be? No more free rides.

« on: June 07, 2012, 03:40:06 PM »

Ok Glen. Why is it that you do not send first a " Cease" letter too ?

EXACTLY my first thought, innocent infringers and others are not getting a "second chance".. any lawyer should know what is over the top and any lawyer should at the very least do a little research into the case...ya know is this image really worth this much?..but again most of these new lawyers only see dollar signs..

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Getty Images Letter Forum / In other news..

« on: June 07, 2012, 03:26:25 PM »

it appears that the default judgement agains MND Events, could not be entered, due to some errors on the behalf of Hawaiian Art networks attorneys, so it appears MND may have a second chance at answering this complaint..

The document is here for the time being, until we get it in the scribd account
palmbeachdns.com/mnd_default_2.pdf

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: What Will Glen Carner's ELI Contribution Be? No more free rides.

« on: June 07, 2012, 03:22:49 PM »

While I like this suggestion, we would have no way of really knowing and quite frankly I'm not so sure I trust him at this point..I would have less of a problem with him being here if he wasn't always trying to spin things to take advantage of the PR that the ELI machine brings...both good and bad

I have got  a suggestion :

Glen should stay under one condition: As long as he is discussing with us here he has to stop his demand letters for this period of time. If he decides to stick to his program he should leave and stay away.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: What Will Glen Carner's ELI Contribution Be? No more free rides.

« on: June 07, 2012, 03:07:56 PM »

I'll take a risk at being thrown under the bus for a change of pace..

I will continue to support ELI in any way I can, regardless of what comes of this. And I fully support Oscars' and Matthews' position, but dammit MC did you have to throw the FREE SPEECH thing in there?? This is exactly why I think we have a good community, we all see things from a different perspective.

I'm not completely sold on the idea that Glen is here for his stated and intended purpose, I'm trying to, but all I am seeing AT THIS POINT is a PR multi-pronged campaign, as well as a bunch of questions that have gone unanswered.

Do I really care if he answers?, not really that's on him, and I also really don't care if he stays or if he goes. If he is intent on making changes he will do this on his own with or without our help or hindrance.

so with all that being said perhaps we need to rethink this option.. I hate to back-pedal, but I do need to try to be fair to all involved......

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: What Does Glen Carner Think of Getty Images & Masterfile?

« on: June 07, 2012, 01:40:22 PM »

6. Would you be interested in a telephone or video interview?

Only if we can do a 3 way!!   

just kidding naturally

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: A Man of Principal and Not Interest

« on: June 07, 2012, 01:36:36 PM »

To Quote MCFilms:
"Back to the question at hand. I think the phone call is a horrible idea. I think a letter with all the documentation, proof and information tied up into a neat little package with a reasonable (REASONABLE!) claim would be acceptable to me. I know other people on here are of the opinion that a takedown notice should be issued first. If the stock industry were to take that extraordinary step, they might win be back as a customer."

I agree 100% with the above statement..It's really very simple, but the stock agencies cannot see the forest thru the trees..
It's the un-reasonable amounts they demand they get me going, hell if getty had approached me and asked for an amount that was inline to what the image was worth, I may have very well paid them ( even though I had a license for the imagebut i'll forego that part for now) Don't be sending me leeter threatening a lawsuit and demanding 1200.00 for an image that is clearly available for 47.00.. I too want to see a change and trust me i'm trying to be open minded, but it's difficult when Glen comes along with his song and dance, talking out the side of his mouth.. I change my business as times change, I don't feel as if I need to figure out and advise stock image companies, how they need to change their business, they should be able to figure this out on their own. It's been well stated here on ELI what needs to be changed, they just keep stumbling over the money portion.. Rights Managed Images are DEAD for all intents and purposes, people ARE NOT going to buy/license these images, given the choice of micro-stock and royalty free options.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: A Man of Principal and Not Interest

« on: June 06, 2012, 09:26:24 PM »

Further proof it is about greed and money, they could care less about the how or why - they being Hawaiian Art Network, Getty Images, Masterfile, Corbis, Copyright Services International LLC, Timothy B. McCormack, George Riddick, Geoffrey Beale, photoattorney.com Carolyn Wright, Cindy Hsu, Leslie Burns, Brandon Sand, Peter T. Holt,  the list is endless ( I apologize to those trolls I did not mention, these were just off the top of my head!) These so called attorneys, don't even bother to look into the case before sending the extortion letter, they are just interested in getting the settlement, their cut and the opportunity to send out more letters..

ENLV--
The 'no clients' aspect is why I think HAN bungled. They need to be able to figure out when something really is a business and when what they found is basically a mock up.  This requires some effort. In your case just listening to you and doing a few checks should have cleared that up. But that effort wasn't undertaken by HAN and instead you were treated very, very badly and unfairly.