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Eric, very good information. Thank you for sharing your experience.

Knowing what I know now after more than two years of playing the Getty Game, if I had all this to do over again, I would either follow your approach and do nothing but ignore or else I'd jump in and write letter after letter after letter to Getty Images and McCormack pretending to be absolutely insane, citing court cases about condom malfunctions, writing diatribes about the Illuminati's involvement with the local credit union, and asking probing questions regarding the 36 actors and celebrities that Lindsey Lohan is recently reported to have had sex with!

I did find especially interesting your aged advisor's point about a judge not being impressed by making a response to Getty's initial letter. I'm looking forward to reading comments here in the forum about this particular point.

Anyway, thanks again for sharing. I found your narrative comprehensive, useful, and informative.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Big Change at Getty -- Free Use
« on: March 06, 2014, 09:28:20 AM »
There are, of course, many catches to Getty's new "free images:

The embedding tool is intended only for noncommercial uses. In many cases, Peters says, publishers will prefer to pay for images because they will get more control and won’t have embedded images sending information about their Web traffic back to Getty. Embedded images will not be allowed in contexts that promote products or businesses. “That’s a pretty clear delineation,” Peters says. “We’ll enforce the terms of this license if people start using these images to do that.”

above from story at...  http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-06/since-it-cant-sue-us-all-getty-images-embraces-embedded-photos

And I'm confident Getty isn't going to donate PicScout to the "Save the Whales" foundation so they can auction that Israeli company to the highest bidder.


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Regarding this job description, the tremendous number of grammatical and syntax errors struck me in the face.

Indeed, this description was so close to illiterate that I'm wondering if Getty Images might have farmed the work out to a certain Seattle intellectual property law firm, a firm known for mailing settlement demand form letters with a similar plethora of spelling and grammatical errors, the sort of mistakes one typically finds in third grade history reports?

With that said, it does sound like a thrilling job... especially for those with no moral compass or innate sense of right and wrong. Did anyone else get the sense that this job pays on a commission basis, perhaps in addition to a minimum hourly wage?

Oh, I need to print this job description and study it in more detail. It's obvious Getty could use the help of a serious writer, someone who actually knows the difference between "youre" and "you're".

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Just ignore them
« on: February 03, 2014, 04:55:07 PM »
You may well get a "last chance" letter from Timothy B. McCormack and his goon squad of paralegal trolls. Read this topic for more details:

http://www.extortionletterinfo.com/forum/mccormack-letter-forum/mccormack-office-is-in-potential-trouble-again-over-%27last-chance%27-letter

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Ah, I sense the ELI embers heating up, soon to burst back into the Matt Chan flame we all know and love.

Welcome back, Matthew.

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Asrael, a major aspect of many of these copyright trolling schemes is to generate fear via phony deadlines suggesting if you don't pay or act RIGHT NOW the sky will fall in on you. This psychological ploy is powerful but it's also bullshit, as many of us here have learned.

So, first of all, take a few deep breaths and relax. Nothing bad is going to happen immediately or even quickly, and you have plenty of time to educate yourself and then decide how to proceed.

The chances of anyone suing you over one image used innocently are slim and none.

Keep reading the forum's old posts, watch the videos, and ask specific questions here as they come to you and we'll help you relax and play this game. That's really all it is... a nasty little game developed by nasty little people who like to try to force nice people pay big money for often lame and cheesy images.

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First off, tell those fools you don't discuss legal matters in email and that you want a paper record should this business have to go to court. So if they have something to say to you, send it by postal mail. Stay off the phone too. Give them as little as possible to twist and distort because, believe me, they're masters at twisting and distorting. Almost as good as Miley Cyrus. But I digress.

Back to the matter at hand... many folks on this forum have received multiple form letters from Timothy McCormack's collection agency law office. If you read through the various topics, you'll learn that in all instances to date that have been discussed here the letters have been bluff and bluster designed to scare the shit (and $$$) out of people.

Personally, I replied to McCormack's initial letter by requesting proof of his right to demand three times the amount Getty wanted. His office refused to provide proof but did offer me a payment plan (for a generous additional $300 to "process").

I wrote back and said "So sorry. No proof, no money. Issue closed. You won't hear from me again."

I ignored another two letters or maybe it was three (old memory fading on this) from his office before eventually receiving a "last chance" letter, details of which you can read about in this topic:

http://www.extortionletterinfo.com/forum/getty-images-letter-forum/mccormack-office-is-in-potential-trouble-again-over-%27last-chance%27-letter/

Hopefully, you'll feel more at ease after reading the above link.

On another note, I think your lawyer gave you good advice, though a lot of local lawyers do not, instead saying you should go ahead and pay. These chaps are either ignorant or, to make a mean generalization (sorry Oscar), just looking out for a fellow shyster's easy buck.

(While I'm ranting, as an editorial aside, other than corporate CEO's, many surgeons, and Brangelina what members of other professions can charge $995 or more an hour and get away with it for shuffling paper (electrons in the case of those lawyers and judges who are finally computer literate) while arguing contradictory laws passed by a government legislated for the most part by thieves and scoundrels who have won their jobs because of "contributions" from corporations and the big wigs who make tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars a year while so many of the rest of us work our asses off for an hourly wage that might possibly stop Miley Cyrus cold in the middle of a twerk if she heard what we were earning?) 

In closing, where I live and where a lot of forum members live, we don't pay unless we're either shown proof of a right to demand money or else have the barrel end of a shotgun in our face with a mafioso type's finger tightening on the trigger on the other end.

And even in the latter case, a few of us might tell the bandit with the gun (or the collection agent lawyer with fancy legal letterhead which doesn't mean jack but sure scares the crap out of a lot of people) to go fish because we don't put up with extortion as a pure matter of principle.

There, I'm happy I got that off my chest.

Now, where's my inhaler? I get such asthma attacks visualizing Miley Cyrus in the middle of a twerk. It truly is tough to get this old... sigh.

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Good job replying to the atradius goon.

Put it in writing and don't call me again, $!#^%$#. I'm not byteing on your baloney, bud! :)

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Legal Controversies Forum / MP3 Ripping and YouTube
« on: October 26, 2013, 10:36:21 AM »
Here's a link to an article entitled "Major YouTube ripper loses court case for archiving MP3s, but won’t be closing shop." I thought this piece made for interesting reading:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/youtube-mp3-converter-loses-court-case/

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: 20 questions interview
« on: October 10, 2013, 10:03:17 AM »
Peeved, I'd like to discuss the reference to "chicken lady" in the YouTube video link you shared and tell you that it made me think of a sexy scene from "In the Cut" with Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo.

But, alas, I can't do that because Mrs. Mulligan made me leave the room when the clothes started coming off so I still don't know what it meant when Ruffalo started talking about learning something from a "Chicken Lady."

Oh, oh... gotta post this and surf away. I hear the old lady stomping down the hallway and headed out here to the garage to see if I'm feeding the washing machine as per her directions. If she catches me typing away on the little laptop, I'm toast!

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: 20 questions interview
« on: October 09, 2013, 05:00:09 PM »
I was gonna follow directions, but when I saw that Oscar didn't, and put in a shameless plug for his good looks, I decided not to follow directions.  However, I did refrain from any plugs for my good looks, because, quite frankly, that is a competition Oscar wins hands down.

Well, I'd have to see a picture of Peeved before I'd hands down give Oscar an Oscar for Best Looks even though I'm impressed with his masculine features and friendly visage!

On the other hand, if we were handing out prizes for the most wizened face that has been battered and abused and lined and spotted by decades of dealing with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, I would with all humility submit my own mug for consideration to the jury.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: 20 questions interview
« on: October 08, 2013, 04:47:32 PM »
Oh oh. My bad. I didn't follow directions. So sorry, Robert and Peeved!

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Thanks, Oscar. That's one for my "Just in Case" files even though I'm no longer using images on my website.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: 20 questions interview
« on: October 07, 2013, 02:03:11 PM »
What is Matt doing with the time each day that he used to devote to ELI?

What plans and/or changes, if any, does he have for ELI after he wins his appeal?


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Anyone suing a person with Martha Stewart's money and personality either has balls the size of watermelons or a brain the size of a frozen pea. I suspect the latter to be closest to the truth.

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