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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: How long before you get a letter?

« on: November 11, 2009, 04:47:39 AM »

I used the Professional Contractors Group (PCG+) legal helpline in the UK and was told that my situation (the website/images that Getty refer to was taken off the air mid-2008) is easily within the period that they can come back to address this.  I was given the impression it could be at least 5 years.

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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Getty file complaint in high court against JA Coles

« on: November 10, 2009, 02:58:44 PM »

I should have stated that my company is UK based

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: How long before you get a letter?

« on: November 10, 2009, 02:56:12 PM »

Sorry, they are coming at me for a website version which hasn't been live for 2 years (and was incorrectly uploaded anyway by a third party).

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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Getty WINS its case in the UK against JA Coles

« on: November 10, 2009, 02:53:01 PM »

Well, Getty have won a case...

details of the Getty win against JA Coles

Personally, I have a bill for £800 x11 images = £8800.  Typical story; a webdev firm was asked to develop a site, the site was live for a while but then replaced over 2 years ago by a new site.  This year (August 2009) we receive an invoice from Getty (interestingly dated with a June 2008 date) demanding the money.  We've already gone back to Getty to tell them that the site was removed some time ago following issues with the webdev company and that we buy our images through an agency called fotolia.co.uk for all images on our site that has been live for nearly 2 years.  We relied on the webdev firm previously and assumed all was ok, perhaps naive in hindsight.  Getty ignored the response to them and have put Moreton Smith on the job to collect money.  We have not responded to them yet.

I've already had a few huge ongoing stressful situations this year and this is just tipping me to the edge, we cannot afford this bill and see it this way that the webdev firm are in breach here and it was for something over 2 years ago without our final control.

Oscar, can you be of any assistance, I am really on that edge...