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Higbee Associates Letter & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Higbee's Greatest Courtroom Hits
« on: October 08, 2017, 01:45:38 PM »
I wonder if any of the disbarred lawyers from the Prenda firm work at Higbee.
Case in point. Here are two links for the same image:
http://stock-photos.nyphotographic.com/tablet-dictionary/authentic/
http://thebluediamondgallery.com/tablet-dictionary/a/authentic.html
The first web site belongs to the photographer Higbee represents and that site demands a license fee.
The second site lists the same photo for free under creative commons licensing. I image a lot of people see "free", do not notice the requirement for attribution, and later get a call from Higbee.
Perhaps not an outright scam like the Prenda operation, but it does call into question some things, not the least of which is that by setting-up the creative commons site, Google and Bing search engines flag the image as "labeled for reuse".
Case in point. Here are two links for the same image:
http://stock-photos.nyphotographic.com/tablet-dictionary/authentic/
http://thebluediamondgallery.com/tablet-dictionary/a/authentic.html
The first web site belongs to the photographer Higbee represents and that site demands a license fee.
The second site lists the same photo for free under creative commons licensing. I image a lot of people see "free", do not notice the requirement for attribution, and later get a call from Higbee.
Perhaps not an outright scam like the Prenda operation, but it does call into question some things, not the least of which is that by setting-up the creative commons site, Google and Bing search engines flag the image as "labeled for reuse".