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Getty Images Letter Forum / Expiration of 3 years - what exactly does it mean?
« on: November 26, 2018, 08:23:49 PM »
Greetings, All. With the help of this forum and the advice contained herein, I am coming up on 3 years of first being contacted by LCS about a pic on my website. I went back and forth with LCS early in the process, but then went dark after clearly stating my case and asking questions, to which I never received a response and have not been contacted again. If luck holds, the waiting game will have paid off and 3 years will have passed.
But I have a question relative to what exactly it means for the 3-year limitation to expire. Does this mean I can never be contacted about this particular pic again by any company that represents this photographer? During these 3 years, LCS appears to have gone out of biz, and the photographer whose photo I used transferred their copyright enforcement efforts to PicRights (again, I only received correspondence from LCS, never PicRights). Does that make any difference? Maybe I got lucky with the transfer from one company to another and got lost in the shuffle?
In short, I'm asking what exactly the expiration of the 3 years means. Am I completely off the hook for this photo? Thank you!
But I have a question relative to what exactly it means for the 3-year limitation to expire. Does this mean I can never be contacted about this particular pic again by any company that represents this photographer? During these 3 years, LCS appears to have gone out of biz, and the photographer whose photo I used transferred their copyright enforcement efforts to PicRights (again, I only received correspondence from LCS, never PicRights). Does that make any difference? Maybe I got lucky with the transfer from one company to another and got lost in the shuffle?
In short, I'm asking what exactly the expiration of the 3 years means. Am I completely off the hook for this photo? Thank you!