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Higbee Associates Letter & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Beware of Photographer Nicholas (Nick) Youngson of NYPhotographic.com

« on: April 08, 2017, 06:13:32 PM »

Just got documents in the mail from Higbee concerning Nicholas Youngson. Higbee now claims it is representing RM Media, Ltd instead of Youngson. Enclosed in the letter is a copy of court papers showing RM Meda, LTD. as Plaintiff stating COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AND DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL. The problem is that there is NO CASE NO.

Looks like this is another way that Higbee is intimidating people to pay the $5000.00 extortion fee. They started mailing out these demands and sending emails around December, 2016.

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Higbee Associates Letter & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Beware of Photographer Nicholas (Nick) Youngson of NYPhotographic.com

« on: December 26, 2016, 04:33:15 PM »

Just found this in a posting at http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/intelprop/magazine/LANDSLIDEMay2010_McKinney.authcheckdam.pdf
That's my attribute by the way.

Somehow, Higbee forgot to include the second paragraph (below) in the demand letter he sent me.

"The range for statutory damages set forth in § 504(c) of the
Copyright Act is $750 to $30,000 per work infringed.32 If
the copyright owner can prove that the infringement was
“willful,” the court may increase the award to $150,000.

Alternatively, if the defendant proves that he was not aware
and had no reason to believe that his actions constituted
infringement, the court, in its discretion, may reduce the
statutory award to $200 per work infringed."

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Higbee Associates Letter & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Beware of Photographer Nicholas (Nick) Youngson of NYPhotographic.com

« on: December 25, 2016, 02:48:59 PM »

Higbee just sent me a collection message via email on Christmas day. Can you believe it? Classless intimidation.

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Higbee Associates Letter & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Beware of Photographer Nicholas (Nick) Youngson of NYPhotographic.com

« on: December 21, 2016, 10:13:48 PM »

Count me in.
I too am being harassed by Higbee. I received a notice from them in the mail on Saturday, 12/17/2016. The very next day they sent a email requesting payment of $5000.00. I just received another email today (Wednesday) trying to collect again. I have a copy of the creative commons license from pixserver.org. I sent a letter to the Defense Letter Program at '[email protected]' but I have not heard back from them yet.

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Higbee Associates Letter & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Beware of Photographer Nicholas (Nick) Youngson of NYPhotographic.com

« on: December 18, 2016, 10:06:04 AM »

I just received a letter from Higbee & Associates representing Nick Youngson. They are demanding I pay $5000.00 in 10 days or they will sue. This is for one image on a test website for 60 days. I got the image from picserver and it said the image was free to use even commercially. So the image is free to use as is but there is a link to the full size image in which you can buy it for $9.95. How can an image go from free to $5000.00?