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Legal Controversies Forum / Re: Oscar's Courtroom Strategy Blog
« on: September 26, 2013, 09:39:02 AM »
Having been online almost since the first browser came out, I've gotten pretty savvy over the years regarding what and what not to believe. This is especially true in terms of reviews and review sites.

Well, the review police have been working on the problem of fake reviews, and in Oscar Michelen's latest blog post he informs and comments on the topic with his usual interesting observations at

http://www.courtroomstrategy.com/2013/09/fake-five-star-reviews-on-yelp-lead-to-six-figure-fines/

In the spirit of full disclosure, I should add that I did not receive any compensation for this review of Oscar's latest blog post.

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Excellent article. Thanks to Matt for sharing this one via Greg!

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Remember... bar associations are composed of lawyers looking out for fellow lawyers... just like medical associations are for doctors taking care of their own.

I'm a cynic so take this next comment in that light. In my opinion, the odds of a lawyer actually being sanctioned in a meaningful way by a bar association are, I'm sure, about the same as the odds that Getty will sue anyone over one thumbnail image: slim and none.

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Last paragraph of the story:

"Natt Reifler, one of Palmer, Reifler's principals, was deposed in 2007 for an unrelated lawsuit. Asked how much money Palmer, Reifler collects on behalf of its clients, he replied, "under $10 million a year." The firm's typical contingency fee, he said, was between 18 percent and 30 percent. Asked to name the firm's biggest clients (as of January 2007), he responded, "The top five would probably include Walmart, Kmart, J.C. Penny, Walgreens, possibly. It's hard to say who the fifth would be."

And lawyers like this guy wonder why people hate their guts... actually, lawyers like this guy and his firm most likely care less what anyone thinks other than the accountants who help them twists tax laws to reduce the liability on their "less than $10,000,000 a year."

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I just worry about when I get to the point that I can type faster than my brain can work.  ;)

I'm at that point, I'm afraid, and it ain't at all pretty!

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Greg, you're right. I was confused about the Supreme Court reference. Thanks for clearing up my muddled thinking caused, of course, by yesterday's old man brain fart! Of course it would be the Georgia Supreme Court. Duh!!! :)

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Greg, thanks for the latest update. Supreme Court possibility --- leaves me speechless.

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Nice Press Release!

Thanks for posting it here, Greg!

Yes, thanks very much for this update.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: GI, Florida sinkhole, and pink planet
« on: August 28, 2013, 10:59:09 AM »
I don't put much stock in Getty's accounting of their tens of millions of images. The image they wanted money from me for was supposedly a RM image and yet with just a little searching I found the same image on both a free image site as well as a stock photo site not owned by Getty, where the same image was labeled as that company's RM image.

I didn't point this out to Getty's "compliance team" goof or to their main copyright troll and collection agent Timothy B. McCormack because I don't reveal my cards before discovery, but I certainly have those facts in my two-inch thick evidence folder if I ever need them.

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More likely too much MSG on the take out egg rolls and chop suey!

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Greg, thanks for the update!

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That's an interesting question... because it appears from what people have written about their experiences here on ELI as well as on other forums that if Getty thought they had a decent chance at making an easy $875, they'd sue an Argentinian cowboy who's never even heard of the Internet for having a tattoo resembling one of their "Rights Managed" images on his horse's ass.

Because Getty Images financially benefits by ripping from the branches the low-hanging fruit with their aggressive picking, there must be some legal or political reason they're not mailing settlement demand letters to Facebook members for posting images allegedly registered and in the Getty catalogs.

If there wasn't a compelling reason, I'm sure Getty would have jumped into that pool of easy money with both feet. My God, can you imagine the potential profit here? Holy Slivers of the True Cross, there's a gigantic pool of guilty copyright infringing bastards on Facebook who are illegally posting zillions of cheesy thumbnails that no doubt reside somewhere deep in one of Getty's vaults of purchased images.

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Legal Controversies Forum / Oscar's Courtroom Strategy Blog
« on: August 19, 2013, 11:02:09 AM »
I'm a huge fan of Oscar's blog, CourtroomStrategy.com, and I check it every week or two to see the latest topic to go under the knife of Oscar's thinking and experience.

I found the most recent topic -- "What to Do When the Client Wants to Lie" -- particularly fascinating because it thoroughly answers a question about which I've long been curious.

If you want to see a sharp legal mind at work on a topic both interesting and relevant to today's courtrooms, surf over to this link and read the post:

http://www.courtroomstrategy.com/2013/08/what-to-do-when-the-client-wants-to-lie/

Thanks to Oscar for posting regularly on CourtroomStrategy.com. I'm not a lawyer, but I am a writer who appreciates good writing... and Oscar Michelen pens some of the most understandable and intelligent prose about matters of the law that I've ever seen from an attorney, many of whom write as if they're being asphyxiated by long words with Latin roots.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Educational Web Site
« on: August 18, 2013, 05:35:23 PM »
Roger, your latest post is one reason I would chop off my right foot and get around on a pogo stick for the rest of my life before I'd trust a bankruptcy lawyer to inform me on issues involving the internet and unproven copyright infringement of two images.

Your conversation with that bankruptcy lawyer must have frightened you. Hell, it scared the crap out of me and I know better than to believe 90% of what he told you. Shoot, that lawyer doesn't even know how much it costs to file a copyright suit in federal court.

Anyway, I think your best bet would be to hire Oscar to take care of this matter for you. That will save you a boat load of money and a mind full of worry. I may be completely wrong here, but it appears to me like the lawyer you talked with is more interested in scaring you and possibly making some money off of you than properly advising you.

I don't see Getty filing a suit against an old man living on social security whose house is now worth less than half of what it once was. The negative publicity Getty would get from doing this would rock their little extortion scheme nine points on the Richter scale.

Like I said, dig up the $195 and hire Oscar and put your mind at ease. Here's the page where its described:

http://www.extortionletterinfo.com/2012-update-expansion-of-attorney-oscar-michelens-defense-letter-program/

In closing, reading Roger's latest post once again infuriates me because it reveals the pure nastiness of Getty's settlement demand program and how it can affect people who already have more than enough on their plates to worry about.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Educational Web Site
« on: August 18, 2013, 10:25:39 AM »
Good one, Jerry. Still moping coffee off my monitor after bursting out a laugh from reading your suggested reply to send to Getty. Ha!

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