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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: hire freelance designer and get charged

« on: April 28, 2011, 03:09:16 AM »

I have contacted the graphic designer, but the problem is the designer said he took the image from google image and the time he copied there were no copywrite mentioned. We charged by Getty Image for 1 picture RM4950 (crazy amount), and we removed it once the letter received, has anyone encountered this kinds of case in Malaysia or Asia country? Feel free sharing, thank you.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / hire freelance designer and get charged

« on: April 26, 2011, 10:48:14 AM »

hi Oscar, just hope to get your opinion of how can i solve my company problem. Our company received a legal letter from Getty last week, the story was all the same saying that we dont have the copywrite and bla bla bla. Because our company uses freelance graphic designer for all the design and in order to avoid copywrite problem we will let them sign a letter (detail: all photos are free of copywrite and design must do by them).

I have provided all the freelance detail to Getty Image, but Getty Image said unless the graphic designer contact them and solve my case with them then this case will close, but the problem is if the designer does not want to contact Getty Image (since he knows he will get charged) what can I do to solve my problem? I got letter signed from graphic designer and receipt (the design fee paid to designer). The deadline Getty gave me is till 2/5/2011

Thank you for your time and effort spent for my story....

Best regard,
Daniel