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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Copytrack extortion letter
« on: February 18, 2018, 11:05:57 AM »
MC2, I think it's 300 euros because only 1 image. If you read 1st post in this thread by svsanchez he said he was charged by Copytrack for 1800 euros for 6 images.

I've just read posts about this similar subject in some forums.
I understand that using copyrighted digital material with intention is an infringement and is subject to a lawsuit.

The thing that still came in my mind is the email is simply threatening users with clause "Removing the image will not inhibit law enforcement".
This may be relevant if the user is an established company or the user deliberately resells the digital material even though he/she knows it's a violation.

I live in a country where many families earn about USD 400 - 600 per month per family. That amount is supporting a whole family members, including school tuition for kids, foods, installments or loans. Saving may be only USD 2500 - 4000 per year per family.

Imagine that a kid on the family learns to build website or learn to use social medias, and then uses some images he/she found on internet without feeling guilty and without having sufficient copyright knowledge.
Then it comes an email from Copytrack, demanding thousands of euros for that images, and stating that removing the images is not simply inhibiting the law enforcement...

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Copytrack extortion letter
« on: February 17, 2018, 11:01:04 PM »
Hi Guys,

It's my first post here, stumbled upon a same case as I have.

I run a small business in Indonesia and we've just refresh our website with new layout and contents about 2 months ago.

Our website doesn't have much images as most images are about the products, sent by the product owners. We added some clickbait articles and get the images related to them from internet.

I got an email from Copytrack days ago, insisting me to buy a photo that used in our website for about 300 euros. It says removing the picture will not inhibit legal enforcement.

We've just removed it from our website, but I wonder how it will end? And how frequently it is happened?

The clause "Removing the picture will not inhibit the legal enforcement", is it legal? We've just posted the image less than 2 months and the page has very small amount of visitors.

300+ euros means a lot for our small business.
Any help is appreciated.

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