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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Don't buy from Getty, but who then?

« on: November 23, 2010, 05:23:10 PM »

Yes, I agree with Lettered.  I think everyone should forget the idea of having the smiling girl on the home page of their web site.  I have my web guy removing ALL photos from my sites right now as I dont want anymore letters coming at me and I have completely lost trust in the industry.  He is a photographer and he also designs "images" based on our product screen shots.  I think this is a slippery slope all around with stock photos.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Don't buy from Getty, but who then?

« on: November 22, 2010, 10:49:27 PM »

Am I right in assuming that Fotolia is not owned by Getty Images?  

Does anyone else know who is not owned by Getty?

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: $4,050 for 5 pics on Site that went months ago...

« on: November 22, 2010, 10:33:34 PM »

I have just found an update to my situation that may be of interest.  I spoke to my past web guy who built the site in question and he tells me that the images were part of our Adobe CS2 software and part of Adobe Stock Photos which apparently have since gone under and I guess Getty picked them up and so that means when i put this site up we had the right to those photos.  

Wonder what that means from a legal perspective?  I should at least get a letter advising me that Adobe no longer owns these photos otherwise how would I know since when I put them on the site they were available to me as the purchaser of Adobe software.

I have not seen a mention of this on any other posts.  Does anyone know anything about this?
Kg

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Getty Images Letter Forum / $4,050 for 5 pics on Site that went months ago...

« on: November 22, 2010, 07:11:48 PM »

Hello,
The site isnt even live and has not been for months now when I received MY letter.  What fun!!  

Someone suggested I ignore the letter but from what I read here I should respond.  I am in Canada.

Should I respond or not?  

Also, since I am in Canada should I hire Oscar?  They do have an office in Toronto, Canada now and they are asking for payment in Canadian dollars.

Thanks for the advice.

Mathew - thank you.  I will be popping some money over to you shortly because just the fact that I dont feel completely alone with this is worth a few bucks donation.