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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Famous letter in.... the Netherlands!

« on: April 19, 2011, 04:07:24 AM »

It seems to be a Dutch lawyer / collection agency. We have sent them an e-mail. This is the same e-mail we have sent to GI in London last year in which we state that we have removed the images immediately after their letter. See my previous messages on this forum.

After we have sent the e-mail we were called by the collection agency. They have asked us to do a proposal now to setlle te matter.

I know that other companies have received the same letter from this Dutch collection agency. Apparently GI tries to collect the money through them.

We have not decided yet what we will do next.

Any advise?  
Did anybody else receive the letter from this collection agency 'Van der Steenhoven'?

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Famous letter in.... the Netherlands!

« on: April 08, 2011, 04:11:15 AM »

Yesterday we have received a letter from a Dutch lawyer called van der Steenhoven. They write that they act on behalf of Getty Images.
Within 5 days we have to state that we have stopped publishing the images. Furthermore they want us to pay an amount of more than € 20.000,-- for use of the images, interest, not mentioning the name of Getty with the images, and other costs.

Actually we have stopped publishing the images right after we have received a first letter from Getty Images which was about a year ago.

Do you have any advise how to deal with this?

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Famous letter in.... the Netherlands!

« on: August 02, 2010, 06:54:59 AM »

Hi there,

We are a small Dutch company and have also received the letters. The first one in May. The second one in July. It concerned 9 images in total. These were published on 2 different websites (2 URL's) of our company. Website 1 is our website in the Dutch language. Website 2 is a translation of our website in German.

The websites have been active for almost a year. After receiving the letters we have removed all the images. We have sent their Amsterdam and London based branches an e-mail in which we state that we were not aware of the fact that there were copyrights on these images which had to be paid for.

Getty claims an amount of money for each website:
- Site 1: More than € 8000,-- for  9 pictures (.nl)
- Site 2: More than € 3000,-- for 7 pictures (.de)

Although the images for 'site 2' are similar to the images used for 'site 1', the amount charged for the same image differs. For 'site1' (.nl) they claim € 925,-- per image. For 'site 2' (.de) they claim € 450,-- per image.

What do you people think is the best way to handle this case? Ignore them?

Please advise.