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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Copytrack extortion letter
« on: February 18, 2018, 01:54:17 PM »
The scammers tried to get £1400 out of us for one image. I think the charge must reflect the length of time the image was used for.

Anyway, don't fret. Put the letter in the bin and put all other letters you receive from them in the bin too. Don't worry, and don't think about Copytrack. They are snivelling cowards.

Have a nice life.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Copytrack extortion letter
« on: February 18, 2018, 03:35:55 AM »
Frankly I'm amazed they bothered to contact you with a claim for only €300. I that no experience here (and certainly my own experience) is that they'll send you a string of letters, culminating with one from a third party debt collection agency and then give up and leave you alone. This assumes that you have taken the image down and don't reply to any of their missives.

In short, they are chancers. Ignore them and eventually they'll go away.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Copytrack extortion letter
« on: January 13, 2018, 06:32:23 AM »
Unbelievable. Not yet another dodgy company trying to raise money or boost share value by staging an ICO for a cryptocoin. There's going to be a lot of tears when all these prove worthless (and they will be).

Its Copytrack who have treated the copyright claim as a bad debt. The letter sent by the debt collecting agency they've employed makes this plain.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Copytrack extortion letter
« on: January 04, 2018, 12:00:34 PM »
After a little research I have discovered that Credit Limits International Ltd are not authorised to collect debts in the UK.

Here, try a search on the Financial Conduct Authority's web site:

http://fca-consumer-credit-interim.force.com/CS_RegisterSearchPageNew

So that's that then. Copytrack and their UK debt collection agency Credit Limits International Ltd are nothing by chancers. Ignore them.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Copytrack extortion letter
« on: January 04, 2018, 11:34:40 AM »
Today we received our fifth (or maybe sixth!) missive from Copytrack. This time it was sent on behalf of Copytrack from Credit Limits International (www.creditlimitsinternational.com) an international debt collection agency based near us in the UK. We are continuing to ignore all letters about this issue.

If they were serious about collecting the money they'd have rung us by now.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Copytrack email and letter
« on: January 04, 2018, 11:29:03 AM »
Today we received our fifth (or maybe sixth!) missive from Copytrack. This time it was sent on behalf of Copytrack from Credit Limits International (www.creditlimitsinternational.com) an international debt collection agency. We are continuing to ignore all letters about this issue. Copyright has supplied no proof of copyright ownership and cannot prove we were not sent the image by the same PR agency who sent us the copy for the article/promotion so they have a leg to stand on. Their letter is also addressed to the wrong company (they've sent it to the company that owns the web site domain but not the web site itself).

If they were that serious about collecting the money they'd have rung us by now.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Copytrack email and letter
« on: December 30, 2017, 06:49:39 PM »
And a wheelie bin is exactly where you should put the letters. This is a nasty company that attempts to extort money from people by frightening them. Don't engage with them. They will send you a few letters, each one more nasty, and then they will give up. They have to prove you used the image illegally and if you don't engage with them they can't. They really are slimy creeps.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Copytrack extortion letter
« on: November 28, 2017, 06:58:23 AM »
Hi.

We also received a letter from Copytrack. We run a small (non-profitable) online arts magazine that we use to attract visitors to a website for a small city in the UK. We published an article early 2013 promoting a show at a nearby venue and were supplied with a photo by the venue (or artist's/event's pr agency, we honestly can't remember which). In October 2017 we received a letter from Copytrack billing us for 1400 Euros. We removed the image and ignored the letter. In the last few days we have received another letter asking us to transfer the funds. We are ignoring that too.

The way I see it is that Copytrack need to prove we were using it illegally. And if we were then they need to chase the PR agency that supplied it to us as we used it in good faith (and good luck with that as we have no record of who it was).

Basically Copytrack can send us as many threatening letters as they like but until they gain a court judgement (legal in a post-Brexit Britain) then we're not going to respond.

Of course, it would help their case if their letter was  much more than merely an invoice. It's as if they expected us to us to know who they were and that they were a legitimate concern with a legitimate claim. As they can't even be bothered to explain that my feeling is that they are basically chancers who hope the people they threaten with these invoices cave in and send them money, but that when faced with spending money themselves they won't follow it up. We shall see.

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