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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Copytrack extortion letter
« on: April 09, 2018, 02:37:33 PM »
Hi,
been reading this topic as we also ran into Copytrack. We are a small company based in UK and they requested for 1 image from us 1000 E. We got the image in good faith from one of our partners and that image was of poor quality and used only on informational part of the website. We removed the image in question immediately from our website and offered to pay a fair market value to copytrack for the use (we did not have intention of using any image without consent).
They said they are willing to settle and we should make an offer. We offered 100E which is more than the image is worth which they declined.
They sent us a couple of letters after that requesting payment and in the last one they are threatening that they will use a debt collector agency(probably the same one MC2 mentioned).
We do not plan to pay such crazy amount for 1 image as it is plain extortion. We are now waiting for new letters from them. If they wish they can take us to court but they will not be able to collect as we are just starting and cannot pay such amounts.
We also contacted lawyers from https://abmahnung.sos-recht.de/en/copytrack/ but these guys are also very shady. They asked what was the amount requested from Copytrack and gave their quote of almost 400E + some fees. They stated that we should not pay more than 200E for 1 image. When I asked from more info like exact cost of their services, what will be the expected outcome if we hire them (what they can achieve with copytrack) they never responded. I would not be surprised if they work together with copytrack and use this company as a front to extort money from people (400 E to them + 200 E to copy track is 600E which is not bad).
MC2 any updates from your side?
been reading this topic as we also ran into Copytrack. We are a small company based in UK and they requested for 1 image from us 1000 E. We got the image in good faith from one of our partners and that image was of poor quality and used only on informational part of the website. We removed the image in question immediately from our website and offered to pay a fair market value to copytrack for the use (we did not have intention of using any image without consent).
They said they are willing to settle and we should make an offer. We offered 100E which is more than the image is worth which they declined.
They sent us a couple of letters after that requesting payment and in the last one they are threatening that they will use a debt collector agency(probably the same one MC2 mentioned).
We do not plan to pay such crazy amount for 1 image as it is plain extortion. We are now waiting for new letters from them. If they wish they can take us to court but they will not be able to collect as we are just starting and cannot pay such amounts.
We also contacted lawyers from https://abmahnung.sos-recht.de/en/copytrack/ but these guys are also very shady. They asked what was the amount requested from Copytrack and gave their quote of almost 400E + some fees. They stated that we should not pay more than 200E for 1 image. When I asked from more info like exact cost of their services, what will be the expected outcome if we hire them (what they can achieve with copytrack) they never responded. I would not be surprised if they work together with copytrack and use this company as a front to extort money from people (400 E to them + 200 E to copy track is 600E which is not bad).
MC2 any updates from your side?