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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Another UK Getty 'Love Letter'
« on: April 17, 2012, 01:33:02 PM »
I love this site, has been a great and calming resource for me since I received my Getty UK letter this morning.
So a bit of background about my situation.
As with probably a lot of other people, I found a great image for my 'About me' page for my social media consultancy services website through a Google Images search. This was probably ummm end of September/early October 2011.
Put the image up on the site, let it sit happily for 6 months - obviously ignorant to any kind of copyright breach or anything of the sort.
As I got more educated about online IP and copyright, I become more and more careful about my use of images on pages and blog posts. However I completely forgot about this particular image.
So anyway I received my Getty letter this morning and after an initial panic, found this site and calmed down a LOT.
Its the standard one, asking for £800 plus £184 VAT for this particular image.
I have removed it from my site - I have also done a thorough check of all my other sites to make sure I haven't got any more breaches and when in doubt, deleted images.
Strange thing is that the letter is dated 11 April. But the screenshot of my site is from an old design, which I got rid of about a month ago.
Having read through this stuff, I understand that the next step is to respond to Getty in writing, either by letter or by email I guess.
I just need a bit of help on what to put in the letter. What I have gathered is that it will be something along these lines, and with a stern tone:
- Confirm removal of image
- Ask them to prove exclusive copyright of image in question
- Ask them for how they calculated amount due
- Do I offer a settlement amount (something along the lines of or do I wait to hear back from them on the above first?
If it came to it I would pay, as the image was on my site and ignorance isn't a defence in UK law, however an arbitrary sum with no back up and threatening letter isn't going to get it out of me.
I only started my business a few months ago, and still do almost all my work for free to just try and build a reputation so not sure how I'd be able to pay the full amount.
Would really appreciate any help.
Thanks
So a bit of background about my situation.
As with probably a lot of other people, I found a great image for my 'About me' page for my social media consultancy services website through a Google Images search. This was probably ummm end of September/early October 2011.
Put the image up on the site, let it sit happily for 6 months - obviously ignorant to any kind of copyright breach or anything of the sort.
As I got more educated about online IP and copyright, I become more and more careful about my use of images on pages and blog posts. However I completely forgot about this particular image.
So anyway I received my Getty letter this morning and after an initial panic, found this site and calmed down a LOT.
Its the standard one, asking for £800 plus £184 VAT for this particular image.
I have removed it from my site - I have also done a thorough check of all my other sites to make sure I haven't got any more breaches and when in doubt, deleted images.
Strange thing is that the letter is dated 11 April. But the screenshot of my site is from an old design, which I got rid of about a month ago.
Having read through this stuff, I understand that the next step is to respond to Getty in writing, either by letter or by email I guess.
I just need a bit of help on what to put in the letter. What I have gathered is that it will be something along these lines, and with a stern tone:
- Confirm removal of image
- Ask them to prove exclusive copyright of image in question
- Ask them for how they calculated amount due
- Do I offer a settlement amount (something along the lines of or do I wait to hear back from them on the above first?
If it came to it I would pay, as the image was on my site and ignorance isn't a defence in UK law, however an arbitrary sum with no back up and threatening letter isn't going to get it out of me.
I only started my business a few months ago, and still do almost all my work for free to just try and build a reputation so not sure how I'd be able to pay the full amount.
Would really appreciate any help.
Thanks