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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Got the letter ....A question and my plan....

« on: May 04, 2012, 10:09:58 AM »

Hmm, the video appeared okay and online to me this morning when I checked at:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/22/for-pinterest-revenue-will-turn-copyright-questions-into-problems/

I'm with Matt's instincts on replying three or four times. My thinking on this is that making my case and then having their non-responsive replies on paper is a good thing to do on the unlikely chance that this dispute ever actually end up in court.

I also fully understand and appreciate Soylent's approach, and at times I wish I'd gone that route. But I didn't because I like to fight.

I'm too old for a good, old fashioned knuckle buster where two men actually settle things face to face, but enough testosterone still leaks out on occasion to word battle various ass clowns from Getty Images as well as the creepy and condescending copyright trolls from Getty's outside counsel Timothy B. McCormack law firm.

I guess the bottom line is to do your homework and then move from there in the manner that best fits your disposition as well as how much time you have to devote to this exercise in absurdity.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Removing images from web page, hard drive and archive.org??

« on: May 03, 2012, 07:08:53 PM »

Cooter, I'm really sorry to hear about the pressures your mother is dealing with. I shudder when I think about how many people are suffering the same mental anguish as your mom because of what Getty Images and creepy copyright trolling outside counsels like the Timothy B. McCormack Law Firm are doing.

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P2P/BitTorrent Lawsuits Forum / Re: Furious judge decries "blizzard" of copyright troll lawsuits

« on: May 03, 2012, 04:19:45 PM »

I love seeing these judges figure out what ELI figured out years ago... that copyright trollers are twisting and abusing the system to extort money from people.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: My proposed Getty letter response and settlement offer

« on: May 02, 2012, 10:26:01 AM »

Matt, I'm looking forward to the day one of those interns gets fed up with being a copyright troll who is making so many lives miserable.

On that day, I hope that person will come to ELI and provide all the dirty details about what has to be a totally awful and spiritually deadening job.

I can't even imagine how I could look myself in the mirror every morning knowing that I was going to spend the next eight hours lying to people and doing everything I could to try extract exorbitant payments from them for, in so many cases, frivolous images worth less than $2.00 on the open market.

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Legal Controversies Forum / Re: Flickr teams with Pinterest, releases share button for proper photo attribution

« on: May 01, 2012, 05:31:44 PM »

Stinger, you're not paranoid at all. Getty CEO Klein stated in his TechCrunch interview on Thursday, March 22, 2012, that Getty wants their images spread around so mom and pop and son and daughter surfers can become “extremely visually literate.�

Revealingly, Klein also said, "We don't stop consumers from playing with our images" and "We don't stop the proliferation of imagery."

Of course they don't stop it!

Getty Images encourages "the proliferation of imagery" because doing so feeds the extrajudicial business plan that Getty and the creepy copyright trolls at Timothy B. McCormack Law can then use to extract payments from easily frightened people.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: My proposed Getty letter response and settlement offer

« on: May 01, 2012, 05:10:56 PM »

Timtime, very good letter.

Regarding the links to the other images you provided, I tried that one myself. Getty responded that other images don't matter, that this issue involves the image you infringed with, the Getty image we have rights to, blah, blah, blah.

They have legitimate and honest answers evasive misrepresentations for everything, and if they don't they just ignore those points in your letters.

I also advise no email, no phone conversations... get it all down in writing with a wonderful paper trail that a judge will find most interesting to read if they were actually stupid enough to bring a one image infringement case to court without having the proper standing to do so.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: SuperStock Settlement Demand Letter

« on: April 29, 2012, 12:09:31 PM »

As usual, ironies abound when trying to learn more about copyright trolls like Rob Cook, Attorney At Law P.A.

On his LinkedIn page, in addition to the awards and awards "Too numerous to list," Attorney Rob Cook reveals:

Interests:
    The Practice of Law
    Fishing

First, how can one with a straight face claim to "practice law" when that person is twisting statutes to extort outrageous sums of money from other people? Copyright trolling has nothing to do with the honorable tradition of practicing law and those who say it does are lying to themselves.

Regarding Rob Cook's other interest...

Fishing! Yeah, judging from the outrageous extortion letter Rob T. Cook sent, this man definitely enjoys his fishing. I just hope the people he's trying to use a settlement demand letter to extort money from will tell him to go cut bait.

It turns my stomach to see so many lawyers taking part in these "extrajudicial business model" scams. It's no wonder so many people would kiss a frog before they'd hug a lawyer, with Oscar being the notable exception, of course.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Newbie to the club

« on: April 27, 2012, 11:08:50 AM »

Linnea, thanks for sharing that mp3, which I just downloaded to my computer. That's one interview that I suspect will "mysteriously" disappear from the web. Getty Images does NOT want the dynamite in that one to go off.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: NY Appellate Court Says: The term "Extortionist" is NOT Defamatory

« on: April 27, 2012, 10:35:10 AM »

Matt, I'd be honored for you to add the post to the main page. Thank you for that.

And thanks to everyone who enjoyed reading that little dialogue between father and child. I enjoyed writing the piece very much.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: NY Appellate Court Says: The term "Extortionist" is NOT Defamatory

« on: April 26, 2012, 05:13:34 PM »

Speaking of a term like "extortion" not being defamatory...

If a lawyer like Timothy B. McCormack had a son or daughter, I wonder if a conversation between him and said child would go something like this:

Child: Daddy, what do you do for a living?

Lawyer like TBMcC: I have an intellectual property law firm.

Child: Oh, you mean you protect the creations of artists from huge companies that don't pay the artists properly?

Lawyer like TBMcC: No, no, that's not what I mean. Actually I work for Getty Images, which is a huge company that has dramatically reduced what it pays its artists while exponentially increasing its extrajudicial business model used to extract outrageous payments from little mom and pop websites. And when these people won't pay, then Getty Images turns the work over to my law firm and we try to get even more money out of these nasty copyright infringers. We call them thieves!

Child: I thought copyright infringement was a civil matter?

Lawyer like TBMcC: Well, yes, it is. You know that, and I know that, but the people we send our letters to don't know it. And they send us more money when they think we can put them in jail because they are thieves. Do you understand?

Child: I think so... Daddy, you mean you try to extort even bigger sums of money from little mom and pop website owners?

Lawyer like TBMcC: (Gently) We don't call it extortion. We call it protecting the rights of our artists.

Child: Oh, you mean when you increase the demand for settlement from $750 to $2100, you're going to pay the photographer most of that money?

Lawyer like TBMcC: Not exactly. But I do have a paralegal who sends out our demand letters, and she's making almost eight dollars an hour.

Child: How much do you pay the artist when you scare someone out of $2100?

Lawyer like TBMcC: I can't tell you that. We sign confidentiality agreements keeping all the settlement terms secret forever.

Child: Daddy, are you a copyright troll?

Lawyer like TBMcC: No, no, no! I'm the head of a well-established and highly respected intellectual property law firm, and we do honest work! We punish nasty copyright infringers who post images on their websites without paying for them!

Child: Daddy, aren't there more than 80 billion images on the Internet? How can one image on one website be worth $2100?

Lawyer like TBMcC: Have they taught you about inflation in school yet?

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Got a letter too!

« on: April 26, 2012, 04:43:56 PM »

If you don't have the stomach for endless BS from Getty and then more BS four times as absurd from their outside hired gun, the copyright trolling McCormack Law Firm, give consideration to Oscar's letter program.

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Legal Controversies Forum / Re: Prescription Drug Scam

« on: April 12, 2012, 03:29:46 PM »

I wonder how many serious panic attacks, nervous breakdowns, and even suicide attempts Getty Images, Timothy McCormack Law, Corbis, MasterFile, and RightHaven have possibly helped to cause over the years?

Interestingly enough, on Getty outside counsel Timothy McCormack's website, in the "about" page description of him, learn that "His predisposition as a storyteller is to look for life’s universal connections and meanings in the human stories that might not otherwise be told."

I hope one of these days an ELI member will gather together some of the universal connections and meanings that McCormack's settlement extortion demand letters have caused... a collection of human stories that indeed might not otherwise be told, perhaps because of confidentiality agreements... or because of fear.

It's weird, but many copyright trolling lawyers don't seem to understand irony at all, do they?

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P2P/BitTorrent Lawsuits Forum / Re: Judge Calls Out P2P/Bittorrent Copyright Troll Scam in Plain English

« on: April 10, 2012, 12:12:42 PM »

This is excellent news. Thanks for sharing this, Matt.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Oscar Michelen Defends Chaga Against $6 Million Masterfile Lawsuit

« on: April 06, 2012, 01:34:11 PM »

Fascinating reading so far. Thanks Matt and Oscar for sharing these important documents.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: The Hypocrite of the Century!

« on: April 06, 2012, 01:04:56 PM »

Just like many of us have long suspected... Getty's salting the web with images too so they can then try to extort exorbitant sums of money from people. It's pretty remarkable, however, that one of the top dogs at the Getty Pound would actually admit what he admitted in the interview.

At least those being threatened by Getty and its associated law firm and collection goons now have more ammunition to use for defensive purposes.