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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty getting some of its own medicine

« on: February 08, 2014, 06:47:11 PM »

Getty can try all they claim innocence and use legalese to try and cover their butts all they want but it seems they are getting sued at least once a year for licensing images they don't have rights to.

Remember too that Getty is the one that offers an "Insurance Policy" for the images that you license from them, that should tell you something right there.

Also as Getty will tell you when you try to explain to them where an image came from,  it does not matter where or how you got an image, infringement is a statutory offense so you are on the hook. So the same applies to them!

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty getting some of its own medicine

« on: February 07, 2014, 05:54:18 PM »

Great thread and info, I will have to digest this more over the weekend.  Thanks for sharing!

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@ Robert

I agree this could be VERY problematic for Getty.  Getty keeps doing stuff like this and they don't seem to learn.  When are they going to realize that their current business model is a sinking ship and it's time to abandon ship.

http://me414.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/rat.jpg

From the complaint:

23. Getty applied a watermark to the Work on the Website. The watermark
contained the logo for the Website and read “Thinkstock by Getty Images.”

THIS could be hugely problematic for getty images imho.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Calculator

« on: February 07, 2014, 05:26:03 PM »

I am also very interested in this calculator, unless you are referring to the "View Licensing Options" button next to the images that gives you the "Retail" price of the image.

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Vincent K Tylor rears his ugly troll head...again

« on: February 05, 2014, 12:30:57 PM »

I am in receipt of a new VKT demand letter that was given to me by the recipient.  I will be posting this with their permission as soon I I get it redacted.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: (No subject)Getty Images Settlement

« on: February 04, 2014, 11:40:15 PM »

If they are going after a client of yours I would recommend using Oscar's Letter Program.  They will keep bothering your client.

As far as going to court it is highly unlikely that Getty will sue your client over a single image, if they were it would be done in Federal Court.

We have had several web developers whose clients have received Getty letters and many of them have used Oscar.  Once Oscar send Getty a letter they con no longer contact your client.

In the mean time keep reading the forums and educate yourself before trying to contact Mr. McCormack again.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: ELI Founder Matthew Chan Returns to ELI After Year-Long Exile

« on: February 03, 2014, 07:47:54 AM »

Welcome SDJ!  I have been following www.fightcopyrighttrolls.com now for a couple of years and have gleaned quite a bit of excellent and timely information from your site.  Thank you for all you do and I am very glad you are here!

Cheers, Matt.

McCormack's attack stinks badly, it is not only attack on you, Oscar or Robert, it is attack to all the anti-troll communities, thus it's my duty to help spreading the word and exposing this turd of a "lawyer," Timothy McCormack.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / MOVED: The Definition of Irony

« on: February 02, 2014, 08:35:08 PM »

This topic has been moved to McCormack Letter Forum.

http://www.extortionletterinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=3289.0

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Getty Images Letter Forum / MOVED: The Trade Secrets: The De Minimus Copyright Defense, Part 1

« on: February 02, 2014, 08:24:46 PM »

This topic has been moved to McCormack Letter Forum.

http://www.extortionletterinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=3483.0

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Getty Images Letter Forum / MOVED: My Experience (so far)

« on: February 02, 2014, 08:05:57 PM »

This topic has been moved to McCormack Letter Forum.

http://www.extortionletterinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=3818.0

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Got My Letter

« on: February 02, 2014, 03:07:02 PM »

What about #BusinessAsUsual   

Greg, that is a great idea. We should do it. What's a good tag? (I know there will be a lot of "colorful" suggestions.)

Robert: The journey of a thousand examples start with the first hashtag.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Got My Letter

« on: February 01, 2014, 08:58:37 PM »

Jerry,

This was a great idea you had about tagging the Getty screw ups for future reference, what would you think about adding a tag now to mark McCormack IP Law's screw ups, exaggerations and lies?

See this type of claim from them makes no sense. If you license an image in conjunction with a product, you should be able to continue to use it to promote that product.

I work in television and we use quite a bit of Getty Images. (For now. Trust me, I'm working on changing that.) But if this is Getty's policy, it makes it impossible to use their photography. When we license an image for a show, say it is going to be on a fake billboard, if a frame from the show contains that shot with the billboard, Getty can sue anybody using it. We cannot use that shot in a press kit, or in marketing materials. Heck, the production company cannot even sell the show to an ancillary market (like a DVD distributor or syndication) without them re-licensing the image.

If this is truly their policy, I need to take it up with the networks' legal department. Bruce, please keep me informed of what happens in your specific case. I guess you'll just take their advice and let it lie. But if you are contacted again, please reply to this thread and/or personal message me.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Got My Letter

« on: February 01, 2014, 08:49:10 PM »

Jerry, I agree it makes no sense. I know I am preaching to the choir here but very little of what Getty Images and McCormack IP law does makes sense.  Just like when they send out demand letters over public domain images, when they take pictures belonging to Mr. Morel of the tragic Haitian earthquake and then license them as their own with no credit or compensation and just like countless other examples here on the forums. 

In my opinion this is just a business model for Getty Images, preying on the uninformed and after reading his Laugh-adavit and amicus brief about the only thing Mr. McCormack can do.

See this type of claim from them makes no sense. If you license an image in conjunction with a product, you should be able to continue to use it to promote that product.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: ELI Founder Matthew Chan Returns to ELI After Year-Long Exile

« on: February 01, 2014, 06:02:05 PM »

You can deduct it from my generous pay. 

You guys are killing me!  All of you so-called friends are enjoying my weird comeback way too much.  Now, I have all this non-revenue generating work to do to update everything.  Ugh.

Be sure to update you BIO too, it should reflect your nearly your long absence as well as credit Timothy McCormack of McCormack IP law for your return. 

It's the least you can do for him. 

Hey - You need to change the "Founder-In-Silence" thing! Welcome back!

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Question about precedent

« on: February 01, 2014, 05:58:00 PM »

This whole case smells fishy to me.  Why would Getty who always insists on a confidentiality agreement so no one can see what they are doing all of a sudden want a consent judgement? Just sayin....

I think the Herzog firm did not help the community by agreeing  to two things - first the amount of money they settled for $5,000. That is an outrageous sum for a single image. Secondly agreeing to a consent judgment which is public as opposed to a confidential settlement which is the normal course of business in this matter. I expect Getty will point to this settlement as the example of what they want to obtain in all these lawsuits. But we should not allow this to serve as a template as i don't think this was great result.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: ELI Founder Matthew Chan Returns to ELI After Year-Long Exile

« on: February 01, 2014, 05:48:58 PM »

Be sure to update you BIO too, it should reflect your nearly your long absence as well as credit Timothy McCormack of McCormack IP law for your return. 

It's the least you can do for him. 

Hey - You need to change the "Founder-In-Silence" thing! Welcome back!