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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: The Atradius Letter - various thoughts

« on: January 20, 2013, 06:04:46 PM »

We had a 5 day letter months ago - don't get scared by it - you don't have a debt - it's a demand for monies which is unproven.

Getty is in a USA court case at the moment regarding images from Twitter and distributing them as their own copyright.

Unless you see a signed and notarised declaration from the photographer, who holds the copyright, together with a copy of the agreement from between Getty and the photographer assigning EXCLUSIVE rights to Getty, and the image is the same ( there are many similar images available) and you have also demanded monies from Getty for downloading and copying your website for commercial gain, do nothing as you have no proof that any demand is correct.

You could also be kind and sign the official UK goverment petition at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/35814

Note : I am not a lawyer - this is based on experience.

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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: x2 Getty letters, now Atradius - placed a screenshot on site containing image

« on: January 20, 2013, 05:51:17 PM »

You don't have a 'debt',  this can only exist if you have a contract with Getty or you have a court judgement against you. What you have is a demand ! I would ignore it, if it goes to court, which I doubt, get it transfered to the Patent Office county court - max costs are very limited see http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/courts/patents-court/patents-court-small-claims.pdf

I am not a lawyer, but as far as I am aware the only court case in the UK was settled out of court and rubber stamped by the judge, there is no case law.
Don't have sleepless nights - we have a similar demand going back to April 2012 - progress to date NIL, court action  - NONE.

We replied, you have been downloading and copying our website for commercial gain in violation of our copyright, please pay our demand of [much higher amount]. Getty or rather PICSEARCH will have downloaded all your website to crawl through the images. We also mentioned that they were accessing our website from various IP addresses on a frequent basis and we are analysing our server logs for a DOS attack , which is illegal in the UK.

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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / UK e-petition

« on: November 19, 2012, 07:24:18 PM »

Sign the official UK e-petition at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/35814