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I'm still trying to figure out why they didn't hire Attorney Timothy B. McCormack for this.
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Perhaps an alternative.
Questionable current statistics indicate there are approximately 30,000,000 bloggers in the U.S. Let's presume one-third are "serious" bloggers, this brings us to 10,000,000. Of these serious bloggers, let's presume 10% actually care about their rights, this brings us to 1,000,000.
What would happen if someone started a group of United States Bloggers United by Dollars, i.e. USBUD. Cool, now we have a group. What would happen if USBUD initiated a "pre-legal" program wherein members contribute $100 to a savings account, and that such contribution would be held in the account, overseen by a legal authority. Interestingly, this brings us to a total of $10,000,000.
What would happen if the mission of USBUD was to use that $10,000,000 to do one of two things?
1. Hire lobbyists to go to Capital Hill exercising the Malcolm X approach of making noise until people listen; or
2. Use the $10,000,000 to delver 1-5 really, really, really good legal battles to Getty/Piscout.
Americans have more power than they can imagine. Their problem is they're mostly living in a post-traumatic stress society of learned helplessness.
When you have a giant who goes around bullying millions of little people, it's time for the little people to band in numbers to create their own giant. Personally, I'd be happy to contribute $100 to such a cause.
Make arrangements that, if no lobbying or legal battle against the giant takes place, then everyone can get their $100 back, with about $1 in interest. Actually, this works to give us a niftier name, the Giant 101 Equalizer Group.
When you put together that much money for a cause, it's like "locking and loading." You don't have to fire - you simply have to show your teeth.
In terms of legal battles, I know $10M isn't too much. I would live to see $100M, then everything would boil down to a simple question. Would the giant like to spend $100M across multiple fronts?
This is a matter of tactics, and when people think about tactics long enough, they eventually come up with a very good plan.
Food for thought.
"Email is not an accepted form of business communication."
Very funny. Why would you ever give these people the satisfaction of communicating any other way? Email is the ONLY form of business communication.
The address used is Getty's address?
Getty Images, Seattle
605 5th Ave South, Suite 400
Seattle, WA 98104
I couldn't find anything that I thought was actionable. He doesn't cite any cases specifically, but seems to make up case stories to make his point. I guess I can't make the case that he is lying, because nothing substantive is said. Makes me ill.
Attorney Rothman says,Quote“If I had sent a letter like the one they sent to me, the bar would have my license.”
If that is true, why haven't we been able to get the Washington State Bar Association to pull Timmy McCormack and Lauren Kingston's licenses?
If Rothman can clue us in on how to properly make the request of the WSBA, maybe we can save a lot of people some big headaches henceforth.
I was thinking of you when I posted this story. I knew you would grab on to it so to speak....gotta love that one tweet... they showed her "whole" vagina...yeah leave it to me..or is that leave it to beaver??.... : )
I am willing to be a party to a joint lawsuit or any other formal civil remedy and I am willing to travel to other jurisdictions if need be. I am also willing to engage in publicity to raise such funds if necessary. It is not a tact I would normally engage in or endorse because I distrust the legal system but it might be the only message they understand.
You are missing the point of everyone trying to help you here. it is one thing to warn people to be careful and avoid using an image but you need to take the image down if you have not done so already, regardless of the value....it's not yours. ELI tells everyone if you didn't take the photo, license the photo or know for sure it's in the public domain then DON'T use it. There is a world of difference in taking an image down, then fighting the good fight as opposed to your approach. Just saying.....
hahaha, his web host removed the image for him..along with the entire site. I completely understand that sometimes people will do say things that are way over the top in the heat of the moment...perhaps the OP will rethink his posisition and come to the conclusion, that paying a "few hundred" bucks to a photographer is not only the right thing to do, but would also be the smart thing to do.
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