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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Should I respond? My email draft

« on: March 27, 2013, 08:32:50 PM »

don't send that letter, read the forums, get educated first.....it's not a good idea to "plead guilty" in your letter...it is up to them to prove you are guilty..

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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: e-mail from Getty

« on: March 27, 2013, 04:04:36 PM »

A watermarked image, means nothing..and because the image is on their site means nothing..

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Legal Controversies Forum / Re: Speech Spoken Here

« on: March 27, 2013, 07:30:33 AM »

I could never put my finger on why I kept coming back, I think I now know why!

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty Images Letter from a Web Designer's Perspective - Any Advice?

« on: March 26, 2013, 08:11:45 PM »

Perhaps an easier way to audit, would be to reference all images you have license and reciepts for, those that you don't could become an issue down the road..I guess it all depends on how many sites and images you're looking at.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Recieved Letter from getty

« on: March 25, 2013, 02:11:17 PM »

don't call them, don't make it easy on them in anyway..

your statement "I have tried to ensure to a high degree that images used on my site were in the public domain and free to use." concerns me.. there are very few images in the public domain worth using...most of these would come from government sites or be very old.. I hope you are not confusing "public domain" with "royalty free"...2 completely different beasts, not to mention that "royalty free" does not mean "FREE"..

FYI, it's not required that images have a copyright notice, or watermark or anything, always assume that if you did create the image, someone else did and it's copyrighted.. copyright exists the moment of creation.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Got letter. Question about my response.

« on: March 23, 2013, 08:23:38 PM »

as an fyi, the statute of limitations is 3 years from the date they discovered the image, if you got the first letter 2 years ago, you're well on your way to the end of this..at this point if it were me I would probably not respond and wait it out..but that is a decision only you can make.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Got 3rd Getty Letter Now I'm Not Sure

« on: March 22, 2013, 12:15:43 PM »

Hi everyone.
Well ... here I find myself once again returning to this great forum. As you can tell from the dates of all our last postings, it has been some time now.
However, I woke up this morning to find a new email from NCS now ... so my question is should I respond to them one final time - outlining all that I wrote to Getty back in July/August (i.e. the sample letters I showed you all back then & my "defense"), or should I completely ignore them?
Thanks everyone for the input. Here I thought I was "in the clear" ... but obviously not lol!

Respond to them by stating this is a "claim" not a debt and they have no right to contact you. Further that by letting them know if they continue to harass you, you will report them in accordance with the fair debt collection act ( or whatever its called)... poke around the forum, there are threads dealing with this and ncs.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: OK...got a surprise letter

« on: March 22, 2013, 10:14:08 AM »

Actually Lettered gave you some good advice...make them an offer, negotiate a lower price...hell if I go out and swipe a car. does the punishment change if it's a Maserati or a hyundi?? nope...

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: OK...got a surprise letter

« on: March 22, 2013, 07:27:28 AM »

1 dollar per mile....sorry but you get no sympathy from me on this one, as you clearly stated,

"found one on a tavern website 1000 miles away, thinking nobody would notice"

clearly you knew what you were doing was wrong..

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Letter Received But No Such Image

« on: March 21, 2013, 07:26:28 PM »

But how do I prove it? They send a letter with no proof, just a photo with no link and a threat.

Mike

It's not up to you to prove anything, it's up to them to prove you did....remember this is America..innocent until proven guilty...

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ELI Responses: Media Coverage of Chan v. Ellis Case / Re: Marietta Daily Journal Reader Comment: Gun Threat Against Matthew Chan

« on: March 21, 2013, 07:20:13 AM »

LE probably paid to have that article appear...only a matter of time before the editors, managers and that lousy reported get called out in a big way..

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Legal Controversies Forum / nutball Charles Carreon rises again!

« on: March 20, 2013, 06:28:51 PM »

Charles Carreon Claims A First Amendment Right To Make Vexatious Legal Threats Without Consequence
from the that's-an-interesting-one dept

If you haven't had your dose of nutty legal claims of late, Adam Steinbaugh alerts us to the latest in the long and ongoing saga of our buddy Charles Carreon. When we last checked in on Carreon, he had more or less admitted that his legal threats against a satirical blogger making fun of him were baseless, and had voluntarily agreed to "settle" the case. In that effort, Carreon ignored the issue of legal fees, so the lawyers for the blogger -- Paul Levy and Cathy Gellis (disclosure: I know both of them and consider them friends, and Levy has acted as our legal representative on multiple occasions, so take any analysis with however many grains of salt you'd like) -- sought legal fees. Carreon went on a bizarre rant against Levy in his filing for an extension, trying to build up some conspiracy theory involving Levy somehow trolling the internet for people like himself to go after.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130319/18061522383/charles-carreon-claims-first-amendment-right-to-make-vexatious-legal-threats-without-consequence.shtml

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Legal Controversies Forum / Re: Owners of "Grumpy Cat" vow to sue infringers

« on: March 20, 2013, 06:40:59 AM »

I love Grumpy Cat.
I hope that they don't take this too far.

S.G.

cats taste like chicken...if prepared properly

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ELI Responses: Media Coverage of Chan v. Ellis Case / Matthews complaint / order posted

« on: March 13, 2013, 07:31:06 PM »

I have posted the PPO on copyright-trolls for whomever wishes to openly comment....try to behave yourselves! I will approve any comments as quickly as I can...

http://copyright-trolls.com/site/copyright-troll-squelches-free-speech/

Matthew Chan PPO with Oscar Michelen Statement
http://www.scribd.com/doc/129719047/ELI-Permanent-Protective-Order

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Looking to purchase stock images???

« on: March 13, 2013, 05:52:34 PM »

Surprisingly this list does not contain ISTOCKPHOTO.COM, which I understand is owned by Getty Images as well.

good catch jerry, the reason it did not appear in the above list, was I was doing some IP address research.. all of the above domains are actually hosted with the Getty office's.

Here is the info for Istock

Istockphoto.com 74.113.152.32 Hosted in Canada
IP Range: 74.113.152.0 - 74.113.155.255

Registrant:
        DNS Administrator
        Getty Images (US), Inc.
        601 N 34th St
         Seattle WA 98103    US
        [email protected] +1.2069255000 Fax: +1.2069255001