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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: CPM Legal Settlement Demand Lettter on Behalf of Hawaiian Art Network

« on: January 08, 2012, 02:54:04 PM »

Something else for your defense:

http://www.extortionletterinfo.com/forum/getty-images-letter-forum/possible-entrapment-scheme-by-vincent-k-tylor-hawaiian-art-network/

Does HAN have the EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS for this image for which to bring suit against you!

Probably not, IF and thats a big IF they were to file suit they would just name the photographer in the suit as well, like they have with the 3 other suits..

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Possible Entrapment Scheme by Vincent K. Tylor & Hawaiian Art Network

« on: January 08, 2012, 02:08:12 PM »

I couldn't agree more with this, I also don't think Hawaiian Art Network, encourages it, if it did I think we would being seeing more letters naming other photographers under HANs umbrella, thus far every letter we have seen assoiates V.K.Tylor with the exception of this new skunk image letter, I haven't been able tofigure what this artist has to do with HAN, unless this photographer is using Copyright Services International which is owned by HAN and probably handles the picscout account.

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Righthaven Lawsuits Forum / Nonprofit attacks R-J, Righthaven ‘ambush’ tactic

« on: January 08, 2012, 01:29:24 PM »

The Review-Journal allows its readers to disseminate its articles to third parties. Rather than institute measures to ensure third parties do not copy and paste articles onto other websites, the Review-Journal seemingly invites third parties do to just that," the CIO’s brief says. "Readers can share articles by selecting an icon that is simply labeled 'email this' at the top of each web page. Readers may also save copies of articles onto their own personal computers.

"These options lull the readers into a false sense of security. On one hand, the Review-Journal freely encourages its readers to disseminate its articles, while Righthaven lies in wait to ambush the innocent users with lawsuits," the filing said.

http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2012/jan/07/nonprofit-attacks-r-j-righthaven-ambush-tactic/

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: CPM Legal Settlement Demand Lettter on Behalf of Hawaiian Art Network

« on: January 07, 2012, 08:06:15 AM »

Just like they accuse you of removing copyright information, they would probably state, that it is their image and that it was altered / photoshopped. Just like Getty told me when I produced the license for images / templates that were purchased well over 10 years ago.." Anybody could have created this license"..

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Hawaiian Art Network Lawsuit Collection

« on: January 06, 2012, 08:56:22 PM »

Unfortunate indeed, especially after speaking with the recipient on 2 occasions, and getting the impression, that was going to fight and not give in. Perhaps he weighed his options and thought this was his best course of action ( or in-action).. To bad, another win for the trolls.

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Legal Controversies Forum / from the annals of totally stupid! or is that anals?

« on: January 06, 2012, 06:01:14 PM »

Man who previously changed his name to 'Jack Ass' sues media giant Viacom, saying the MTV show "Jackass" plagiarized his name   This is real folks.  A man in Montana who changed his name back in 1997 to "Jack Ass" (previously Bob Craft), says he did it to raise awareness about the dangers of drunk driving.  The show "Jackass," which premiered on MTV back in 2000, featured a group of guys performing crazy and dangerous stunts, that was also made into a movie in 2002. Jack Ass himself is claiming the company plagiarized his name, infringed on his trademark and copyright to his name and defamed his good character. He's only asking for 10 Million. Source: CNN

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: CPM Legal Settlement Demand Lettter on Behalf of Hawaiian Art Network

« on: January 06, 2012, 05:28:05 PM »

As far as we know Hawaiian Art Network has indeed filed 3 lawsuits, each of these were filed in Hawaii and 2 of the 3 were for multiple images 10+ and these 2 are also international businesses. Will they file suit over 1 image in the states? that has yet to be determined. It is also worth noting that the attorney working the cases (J.Stephen Street) in Hawaii has also been counsel for Pacific Stock and has been in practice longer that some of these other have been alive.

As for the 3rd case I'm not exactly sure if this was for multiple images or not, and to date there hasn't been any updates in the court dockets, hopefully the recipient of this letter will return to the forums and give us an update on his case.

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Righthaven Lawsuits Forum / Righthaven.com sells for $3,300

« on: January 06, 2012, 05:17:45 PM »

Righthaven.com, the domain name that once belonged to the scourge of the internet, has sold in a public auction at SnapNames for $3,300.
The domain name was sold to help cover a court ordered settlement against Righthaven by one of its many victims.

http://domainnamewire.com/2012/01/06/righthaven-com-sells-for-3300/

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Legal Controversies Forum / Copyright Trolls Everywhere!

« on: January 06, 2012, 04:55:28 PM »

Origami Creators Sue Artist For Copyright Infringement Concerning Crease Patterns

Wow. Via Joy Garnett, we discover the latest in a long line of ridiculous copyright lawsuits. Apparently six "origami artists" have sued painter Sarah Morris for using their origami patterns as inspiration for some paintings she did.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110507/01344914197/origami-creators-sue-artist-copyright-infringement-concerning-crease-patterns.shtml

further proof that anyone can sue anybody for any reason!

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: CPM Legal Settlement Demand Lettter on Behalf of Hawaiian Art Network

« on: January 06, 2012, 03:07:27 PM »

Seems to me, just about every letter sent from whichever attorney affiliated with whatever stock image company always seem to think, that it is up to the recipient to prove they are innocent, with the exception of Masterfile, none of them really offer solid proof of anything, in regards to registration or anything else... I like to think the word "scam" is used in the same sense as the word "extortion", heck it could be even called "phishing", in a sense they are just dangling bait and waiting for the un-educated to come along and bite, thus paying these outrageous amounts.

any whoozle I just came across this little tidbit about Mr. Martinen

"Armed with his double law degrees, he is also an active independent producer and talent manager. " oh and realtor as well

http://www.surfview.com/seattcpm.htm

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Righthaven Lawsuits Forum / Re: Righthaven a No Show in Court... Says It Got Confused Over The Date

« on: January 06, 2012, 12:03:39 PM »

One can only dig so deep , before water begins to fill the hole and the sides come crashing in, swallowing up anything in said hole..If Mr Gibson and his "legal team" continue on this path, I suspect they'll be getting a few hots and cot..This is one patient judge!

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: CPM Legal Settlement Demand Lettter on Behalf of Hawaiian Art Network

« on: January 05, 2012, 09:05:44 PM »

I would also appears, that the registration sent with the letter may be for a collection /compilation of photos, I'd have to go back and refresh my memory, but isn't there sometimes an issue with this in relation to the Muensch case??

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Righthaven Lawsuits Forum / Lets all welcome "News Right" to the trolling industry

« on: January 05, 2012, 05:28:12 PM »

Not to be confused with "Righthaven" this is a spin-off of "The Beacon" the brainchild of the AP..

"NewsRight's tracking program was designed to ease the burden on publishers who often must spend time and resources seeking out sites that violate copyrights and determine which ones may be profiting most from their content."

sounds like another picscout to me...read the full article below

http://adage.com/article/mediaworks/newspapers-form-newsright-police-article-pilfering-online/231909/

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: CPM Legal Settlement Demand Lettter on Behalf of Hawaiian Art Network

« on: January 05, 2012, 04:50:24 PM »

Here is some info on Christian Martinens partner:

Linkedin Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joy-de-leon/6/87/389

Bar Assoc.: http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/209141

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: CPM Legal Settlement Demand Lettter on Behalf of Hawaiian Art Network

« on: January 05, 2012, 03:34:57 PM »

Sorry if this is a double post!

Photogs flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/20222369@N05/3978658613/in/photostream/

And not surprisingly to me, this exact image happens to appear on several free wallpaper sites, although not as many as V.K. Tylors, tineye.com only revealed 75 results, mostly blogs and whatnot, but a few wallpaper site in the mix.

http://www.tineye.com/search/c51bf3eb2ef34626d583619dfbd9272ca37aa238/?page=7&sort=score&order=desc