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1996

Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: A non-lawyer idea about "The Letter"

« on: May 03, 2012, 05:13:01 PM »

Been discussed before, this would not be considered copyright infringement on their part..So sorry to say, your line of thinking is indeed at a dead end..

1997

Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Think this letter will stop their harassment?

« on: May 03, 2012, 04:21:59 PM »

I'll jump in! ( I'm not a lawyer) but I'll be as clear as possible here.. There are precisely 2 ways to stop them from harassing you.

1. pay them ( either the full amount or a reduced amount)
2. hire Oscar or another attorney. ( then they are bound by law to harass your attorney)

Regardless of what you write, they will respond, they will ignore any requests for documentation.

You cannot and will not be able to out lawyer them, your letters will land on the desk of a college intern who drinks to much corporate kool-aid and is trained to only respond with the corporate line of BS. At some point it will get escalted to possibly another troll for more of the same.

If you do not have it in you to go back and forth for them for 3 years, simply hire Oscar to draft you a letter on your behalf and be done with it. Citing law, this , that and the other thing is fruitless IMHO

1998

Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: SuperStock Settlement Demand Letter

« on: May 03, 2012, 02:24:28 PM »

Yes, very nice work by SEO zen masters BubbahPi and Matt. A search for "superstock demand letter" pretty much leads here and to that video.

I wonder if in future videos you might want to include the city and state of the troll-attorney. That way it will help people searching for information about a law practice to see what sort of business they are in.

My eye is twitching, which usually means I need to vent, so maybe another video is on the way featuring our newest troll attorney team of Matlock Law Group of San Fransisco and Walnut Creek Ca.

1999

Legal Controversies Forum / Copyright doubts still pinned to Pinterest despite changes

« on: May 03, 2012, 01:07:19 PM »

Little more than two months after concerns about copyright infringement arose, Pinterest announced it is introducing a new feature to credit photographers, artists and creators of other content its users “pin” on the virtual scrapbook, but legal experts were divided yesterday about whether that is enough to protect the website from liability.

The new feature ensures that content from Flickr, Behance, Vimeo and YouTube receives clear attribution under the description of each pin, even if it’s taken from a third-party site, Pinterest said in a statement. The attribution cannot be edited and includes a permanent link to the work, its creator and where the content is hosted.

But Martin O’Donnell, a Boston attorney specializing in copyright law, said merely crediting the creator is not enough.

http://bostonherald.com/business/technology/general/view/20220503copyright_doubts_still_pinned_to_pinterest_despite_changes

2000

P2P/BitTorrent Lawsuits Forum / Furious judge decries "blizzard" of copyright troll lawsuits

« on: May 03, 2012, 01:04:37 PM »

Courts around the country are being flooded with mass copyright lawsuits. In a typical case, the owner of a pornographic film sues dozens of anonymous defendants in a single lawsuit, obtains their contact information, and then tries to extort a four-figure settlement from each defendant before the case reaches the courtroom. The potential embarrassment of having one's name publicly associated with pornographic works gives even innocent defendants a strong incentive to settle.

But as the volume of litigation has grown, judges have begun pushing back, refusing to approve these dragnet information requests. On Tuesday, an obviously angry New York federal judge ruled against plaintiffs in several porn copyright trolling cases. His 26-page ruling is a devastating critique of this entire litigation strategy.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/05/furious-judge-decries-blizzard-of-copyright-troll-lawsuits.ars?clicked=related_right

2001

Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty in Switzerland: this time with LAWYERS letter

« on: May 03, 2012, 12:26:09 PM »

I'm wondering if picscout has now developed something like their own archiver, and maybe are not using archive.org or domain tools as widely. I don't know if domaintools.com follows or ignores robot.txt files, but I do know that it's hard to impossible to get your archived materail deleted from there.

2002

Getty Images Letter Forum / Guyism Website Sued For Infringing Copyrighted Katy Perry Bikini Pictures

« on: May 03, 2012, 11:41:29 AM »

Mavrix Photo is a celebrity photography agency that licenses the pictures to magazines and celebrity gossip websites. Mavrix alleges that it has licensed individual images of celebrities for over $100,000 to major content outlets. Mavrix is accusing the popular men’s website, Guyism.com, of infringing at least 21 different copyrighted Katy Perry bikini pictures by posting them on its website

Mavrix is seeking statutory damage of $3,150,000 for the 21 images. In order to qualify for statutory damages under 17 U.S.C. §412, a plaintiff must show that the pictures were registered within three months from the date of first publication or that the registration occurred before the infringement began.

http://www.iptrademarkattorney.com/2012/05/copyright-infringing-website-guyism-katy-perry-bikini-pictures-mavrix-photo.html

2003

Legal Controversies Forum / After Years Of Near Obscurity, Atari Turns To Copyright Trolling

« on: May 03, 2012, 11:02:35 AM »

Enter Black Powder Media, the makers of the iOS game Vector Tanks. These guys wanted to pay homage to the classic arcade game Battlezone and made Vector Tanks in its image. Black Powder tried to make it unique and were fairly successful at it. However, even Black Powder's best efforts to avoid copyright infringement were not enough for Atari.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120122/09412817503/after-years-near-obscurity-atari-turns-to-copyright-trolling.shtml

2004

Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Introducing Michele Tylor - Hawaiian Art Networks Guest Copyright Troll

« on: May 03, 2012, 10:34:41 AM »

Michele Tylor is listed as owner of Hawaiian Landmark Images Inc. and also does business as as Kauai Photo And Art Tours with their website being http://www.hawaiianphotos.net/

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/micheletylor

Why am I choosing to give Michele Tylor the not so distinct title of copyright troll? If you look at the latest complaints filed from Matlock Law Group on behalf of Glen Carner aka Hawaiian Art Network, representing Vincent K. Tylor ( or is it Vincent Scott Tylor?) you'll notice that the copyright registrations are seemingly handled by Michele Tylor.. So with that little piece of information I can only assume that she is also a copyright troll by association, she is apparently a part of the grand scheme of seeding the internet with Vincent K Tylors images, entrapping poor unsuspecting users, that visit the hundreds of FREE wall paper sites and then attempting to extort crazy amounts of money..

It's really a shame that Matlock Law Group and these other copyright troll attorney's only see money signs and never seem to do any homework to see whom they are associating themselves with.

2005

Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Hawaiian Art Network files 2 more suits

« on: May 03, 2012, 09:57:17 AM »

I don't see Glen Carner and Hawaiian Art Network having the funds to see these thru, providing the newest victims are willing to fight..

I don't know if this would have any bearing on the case, but I find it interesting nonetheless. In the case of Han v. Mind Events the complaint states
"Professional photographer Mr. V.K. Tylor owns the copy right...." and that HAN is an exclusive licensee of V.K. Tylors' images. Then it references a Mr. V. S. Tylor so does tylor have several names / aliases?

Further more if you look at exhibit #1 it lists Vincent Khoury Tylor as author and copyright claimant.while exhibit #2 lists Vincent Scott Tylor as author and copyright claimant.

It would appear to me this would be 2 separate people, unless he has 2 names. I would further think this should have been filed twice, once for each "person"? or at the very least, have both of these names listed as the plaintiff.

Is this something minor, or could this be reason to toss the case?

2006

Righthaven Lawsuits Forum / More Righthaven IP Up For Auction, Including The Name Righthaven

« on: May 03, 2012, 08:26:15 AM »

The list itself is pretty amusing, apparently comprised of two porn movies and a selection of newspaper articles about sports (presumably from the Las Vegas Review Journal). Of course, as we noted originally, even though these copyrights are registered in Righthaven's name, it's likely that they aren't actually valid or enforceable, since the whole crux of the Righthaven saga is that many of the rights transfers to the company were shams, so the original copyright holders still control the works. Buying one of these registrations at auction is a way to own a piece of copyright trolling history, but it's probably not going to make you the legal owner of Ebony Amateurs Vegas Edition #10.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120430/07072118706/more-righthaven-ip-up-auction-including-name-righthaven.shtml

2007

Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty in Switzerland: this time with LAWYERS letter

« on: May 03, 2012, 08:22:26 AM »

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+robots.txt

2008

Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty in Switzerland: this time with LAWYERS letter

« on: May 03, 2012, 06:57:13 AM »

It means exactly that! you have a robots.txt file on your server instructing archive org to not crawl / index your site. For the record Picscout ignores robots.txt and also masks its' user-agent...it is a very bad behaved bot, and borderline hacking INMH

2009

Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Hawaiian Art Network files 2 more suits

« on: May 02, 2012, 10:07:32 PM »

I have it on good authority that HAN will be in for a fight in one of these cases, and with the Aloha case returning to court for the default hearing, they wil be fighting on 2 fronts... I also have it on good authority that Aloha will be vigorously fighting this, if the default gets overturned.. Counter-suits have been mentioned by both parties..this will be interesting to see how many resources ( dollars & sense ) Han has..

2010

Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Hawaiian Art Network files 2 more suits

« on: May 02, 2012, 06:42:41 PM »

Have no fear SG we'll be posting the complaints for all to see, there are a few points worth commenting on, and I'm going to introduce everybody to a special ELI guest appearance!