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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty in the UK

« on: March 05, 2012, 03:56:37 PM »

"Sooner or later Getty will start providing this evidence"

You also have to remember that from what we understand the vast majority of Getty's images are NOT registered, hence they cannot provide this evidence.. Go look at the Advernet case, where the defendant didn't even show up in court, Getty still lost on several points... one big on e being:

"Wojtczak testified that the Getty Images Contributor Agreement did “not have signatures. It is a digitally accepted agreement. The contributor signed via our online contributor contract portal.” The following ensued:

THE COURT: And where, if anywhere, does a representative form Getty execute, sign the document, digitally or otherwise?

THE WITNESS: You know, I'm not entirely familiar with where in the process that happens"

so not only are most images not registered, they evidently don't even have contracts signed by both party's to enforce anything!

A contract MUST be signed by both parties, so if the photogrpaher, "digitally signs" upon sign-up / registration, Getty must also sign something as well, or the contract is null and void

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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty in the UK

« on: March 05, 2012, 09:44:29 AM »

It's one thing to admit the image was used, they have a screen capture showing this, it's another thing to openly admit where said image came from, there are some good threads here, with letters admitting to using the image, but not admitting any wrongdoing at the same time.

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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty in the UK

« on: March 05, 2012, 06:48:40 AM »

Good discussion, I hope the UK version of the letter program works to the benefit of the UK recipients!

One item that does not sit well with me is:
"b, Admitting the offence but offering a much more reasonable amount per image."

I don't think one should ever give this to them, it is an automatic win for them, here in the states it is up to them to prove these allegations..

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Yet another letter recipient

« on: March 05, 2012, 06:37:44 AM »

You can also do google reverse image search. Go to google, click on images, click on the camera icon in the right of the search bar an dpaste the url of the image in the search box..might yield better results than Tineye.

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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty in the UK

« on: March 04, 2012, 03:13:39 PM »

@Matt - I think you did not get the feedback you were looking for because you covered every topic under the sun in your table of contents, I think I can speak for most if not all ELI members / users, that this report will be spot on,  offering answers to most questions in every facet in a succinct well written manner.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: a quick share from another forum

« on: March 03, 2012, 03:15:37 PM »

Being as how ignorant some are, and the amount of people she claims now have the photo, I'd be willing to bet at least one or some will crop the bottom off, and use it, or print it. This is just another example of how these things can spin wildly out of control.. in any case the thread is pretty much dead, tho one photographer did mention the copyright infringement statute..

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Am I doing this right?

« on: March 03, 2012, 12:44:45 PM »

If he did agree to keep it a secret, and Getty catches wind of it here they might send him a new and improved letter..

::EDIT:: I have no clue how the hell I typed the above comment, I think I may have been asleep..

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New image bot Pixray

« on: March 03, 2012, 12:42:10 PM »

Thanx for response Lucia, I'm currently blocking using different methods as well,  .htaccess, blacklisting IPs at the firewall & server level, I haven't had any issues as of late, I think I got a pretty good handle on it at this point, tho every once in a while I'll add an IP or 2. I'm not doing business worldwide, so it's easier for me to just ban IP Country blocks, such as Israel, china, nigeria, ect..

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: a quick share from another forum

« on: March 03, 2012, 12:32:14 PM »

Nice on ePeeved!!

@MC, while I agree, I don't know if this particular photographer will even be upset, as I don't know him from Adam. I agree most would be happy to get the exposure, but as we all know there are the others that will get pissy, as her being a photographer you would think she would know and realize this, and at least ask if she can share it opposed to just copying it and sending it out. I haven't been back to that thread, but there are some hard core over the line types, that will surely advise the photographer to send an invoice, ect...

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Getty Images Letter Forum / a quick share from another forum

« on: March 02, 2012, 07:24:40 PM »

I'm very active on a photography forum and wanted to share this post, to show how damn stoopid people can be..below is the image in question, followed by another users responce..



"I just wanted to let you know that I copy and pasted the after photo in an email to send to a friend at work because she LOVES cats and I knew this would make her smile. She ended up sending it to another friend who loves cats and before you know it, hundreds of people are looking at your work! I work at Chase bank but in the corporate building so things travel fast here! So yeah, feel free to send a check in the mail for the marketing I did for you HAHAHA jk I doubt we are even in the same state. LOL"

This girl is gonna have her ass handed to her, some of the photogs on this forum are very sensitive when it comes to copyright, which is understandable..I would not be surprised if Carolyn Wright's name is not mentioned in this thread.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New image bot Pixray

« on: March 02, 2012, 05:28:32 PM »

Heres another bandwidth sucking thief worth blocking.

Host: 220.181.94.214
Http Version: HTTP/1.1
Referer: http://pic.sogou.com
Agent: Sogou Pic Spider/3.0(+http://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07)

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: New image bot Pixray

« on: March 02, 2012, 05:08:45 PM »

@Lucia, please do share your methods of blocking, ie htaccess, or robots.txt, do we know a user-agent for this one? I'm seeing a spike from 67.54.19.69 which goes back to a savvis communications here in the states..

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Righthaven Lawsuits Forum / Eight more Righthaven lawsuits dismissed

« on: March 02, 2012, 07:10:37 AM »

Las Vegas copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC struck out again in court on Thursday when a federal judge in Reno threw out eight more of its lawsuits.

http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2012/mar/01/eight-more-righthaven-lawsuits-dismissed/

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Beat the Getty Images Extortion Letter: Special Report!

« on: March 01, 2012, 07:20:52 PM »

War and Peace the Matt Chan way!!
In dealing with Matt for almost 3 years, I've made a few observations worth noting..

1. When he says he is going to do something....he does something
2. No half measures, he always goes above and beyond for the greater cause!

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Taking Action

« on: February 29, 2012, 08:58:49 PM »

A cease and desist is not required by law, that's just the "nice" thing to do. What Getty is doing is legal, albeit unethical...you will be treated just like everyone else here, your email will be seen by an intern making minimum wage, whom will answer you with the same response that has been sent out 1000's of times.. Engaging a chat with GI will be  a waste of time.. Contacting the photographer "MAY" yield you a different response, but don't hold your breath.

You need to keep in mind your letter is no more "special" than the 1000's that have already be sent..Not many people buy stock photo's anymore and they have to m ake money somehow.