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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I'm done worrying about it.

« on: July 07, 2015, 01:43:58 PM »

Well, it's been 3 years now, I have never heard a peep out of Getty since the letter I received 3 years ago. I never replied to them. The only thing I did was not worry about it, and that worked for me.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I'm done worrying about it.

« on: April 09, 2015, 11:04:07 PM »

Just an update, same as my last post, nothing new to report.

About 3 months left,

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I'm done worrying about it.

« on: December 11, 2014, 01:47:58 AM »

I have about 1/2 year to go, no peep out of Getty since day one. crossing my fingers.

I hope it's working out ok for others here.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I'm done worrying about it.

« on: July 07, 2014, 11:06:21 PM »

Another Update

It has been 2 years now since I received my letter from Getty. My strategy has been to totally ignore the letter, and so far I have not heard a peep out of Getty since the letter I received July 2012. 

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I'm done worrying about it.

« on: October 17, 2013, 08:45:15 PM »

Just Another update

It has been over a year now since I received my letter from Getty. My strategy has been to totally ignore the letter, and so far I have not heard a peep out of Getty since the letter I received July 2012.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I'm done worrying about it.

« on: June 08, 2013, 10:02:53 PM »

Another update

It has been almost a year now since I received my letter from Getty. My strategy has been to totally ignore the letter, and so far I have not heard a peep out of Getty since the letter I received July 2012.

2 years to go.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I'm done worrying about it.

« on: March 06, 2013, 10:06:31 PM »

Just an update.

I received first letter back in July 2012, and so far have not received any more letters from Getty.

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Legal Controversies Forum / Re: Can you be sued for leaving a bad review?

« on: February 21, 2013, 11:28:28 AM »

If you paid them with a credit card, you should request a refund through the credit card company instead of wasting your time trying to get your money back with this article spinning company.

I did a Paypal dispute and lost.

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Legal Controversies Forum / Can you be sued for leaving a bad review?

« on: February 21, 2013, 10:22:24 AM »

I read reviews all the time and I see many bad reviews of products and service. I was wondering, can a person be sued for giving a bad review of a company on the web?

Here is what I went through with one article service. Can I get sued for having this info of my experience with this company on the web?

http://www.edrums.info/this_was_the_first_round_of_emai33.html


 If I shoud not have posted this here, please remove.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Why are you on ELI? Why do you keep coming back to ELI?

« on: November 11, 2012, 10:48:55 PM »

I will probably be dealing with Getty for the next 3 years, so I will be stopping in once in awhile to check on any updates. like to see when Getty will start suing for a single image.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I'm done worrying about it.

« on: October 10, 2012, 11:49:40 PM »

It's been about three months, I haven't responded to the first letter and so far have not heard a peep out of Getty. My strategy is to do nothing and see what happens. I'll stop back in about 6 months and let you know how that strategy is working for me.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Got 3rd Getty Letter Now I'm Not Sure

« on: August 28, 2012, 12:35:38 PM »

Definitely needs to go on the home page of this website.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I'm done worrying about it.

« on: August 25, 2012, 04:05:45 PM »

Mike, that's a very good point which also applies to some of the more notorious trolls: They apparently have websites "seeding" their copyrighted content. How can Getty send hundreds of extortion letters a month and not catch even one of the seeders?

Same goes for Hawaiian Art Network and Vincent K Tylor. They claims they've send hundreds of cease and desist letters. Google doesn't show even one single DMCA removal request from either of them. There are literally HUNDREDS of sites seeding VKT images. Shouldn't they be interested in having those removed from Google results? Many of them are hosted in the US or have their domain registered in the US and can be taken down with one simple email to the ISP, domain registry or search engine(s) of one's choice.

Mike, why don't you post the website that's seeding the images for Getty? Let's see how long PicScout takes to find them once we actually provide them with a URL. My bet is NEVER.

This link shows the template with the clouds.

http://puzzso.biz/template-11.html


Here are a few sites.


At this link there is another template with the same clouds to the left of it.

http://nsitestore.com/website_templates.html


http://www.ecademy.com/module.php?mod=list&lid=63383

http://www.primabiz.com/produk8.html

http://aerohost.com/FreeTemplates.htm

There also many websites using the template like this.
http://www.mortgagenow.net.au/loans.html

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I'm done worrying about it.

« on: August 25, 2012, 07:21:22 AM »

One more thing. I purchased this template about 4 years ago. I did a search for this template image, without the aide of some hotshot super image searching ap, and was able to find out that this exact same web template as of right now,  is still available, and now being offered as a free download in a few places. If it is their image as they claim, why do they continue to allow this image to survive at the source, where  many more  innocent people will fall into Getty's trap?

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I'm done worrying about it.

« on: August 24, 2012, 10:22:44 PM »

You stole an image, got caught, removed the image and moved on?  Good job I guess.  Maybe next time you shouldn't steal the image to begin with?

I interned at Getty Images when I was in college, many years ago.  The company pays thousands of professional photographers worldwide to snap pictures, nonstop.  Out of every 100 professional-taken photos the company pays photographers to snap, only 1 makes it to their archive for resale.

When individuals like you steal their images without paying their requested royalties, you cause the price of images for all other paying customers to go up.

If you have an oz. of integrity, you'd pay them for the image you stole and then proudly display it on your Website, since you know it's a very worthy image to display.

I did pay for a template with an image Getty claims is theirs. They haven't proven to me they own it, but they send me a nasty extortion letter. Thanks Getty

Who in their right mind would steal a $875 image of some clouds, when you could purchase similar cloud images for $2, or take your own. There is nothing special about those clouds. They are every where.

If it is proven that the image is Gettys, then I may have unknowingly purchased a product from a template company that may have possibly contained one of Gettys image. I'm not a thief.

Getty lost a customer. I will not be purchasing any images from Getty in the future.


Again, I'm not a thief.