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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Educational Web Site
« on: August 17, 2013, 11:31:11 AM »
I'm an older guy, too, Rog, and have been dealing with Getty Images and their copyright trolling outside counsel and collection agent Timothy B. McCormack for over two years now -- though I haven't heard from the company or McCormack or one of his goon paralegals for many months and, frankly, don't expect to hear from them again after repeatedly telling them "If you won't provide proof of a right to demand money from me, I will not send you any money. Without proof of that right to demand money, as far as I'm concerned this matter is closed (so go fuk yourselves until the cows come home)."
Honesty and a devotion to full disclosure requires me to add... Being a polite as well as grumpy old man, I did not actually include the parenthetical portion ("so go fuk yourselves until the cows come home") in my letters, though I admit not doing so required considerable restraint on my part.
Anyway, read the forum and get a good sense of what people have done.
If you want to save a lot of time, energy, and emotional stress, take advantage of Oscar's letter program. For under $200, it's a bargain, especially for someone whose business set-up might require him to use an attorney (which I think you described as the position you're in) rather than taking on the fight yourself.
Main point... don't lose sleep over this. The chances of them actually suing you are most likely close to non-existent. In my experience with these trolls, the whole deal is nothing more than a clever extortion scheme based on threat and intimidation to extract money out of people who are easily frightened.
Honesty and a devotion to full disclosure requires me to add... Being a polite as well as grumpy old man, I did not actually include the parenthetical portion ("so go fuk yourselves until the cows come home") in my letters, though I admit not doing so required considerable restraint on my part.
Anyway, read the forum and get a good sense of what people have done.
If you want to save a lot of time, energy, and emotional stress, take advantage of Oscar's letter program. For under $200, it's a bargain, especially for someone whose business set-up might require him to use an attorney (which I think you described as the position you're in) rather than taking on the fight yourself.
Main point... don't lose sleep over this. The chances of them actually suing you are most likely close to non-existent. In my experience with these trolls, the whole deal is nothing more than a clever extortion scheme based on threat and intimidation to extract money out of people who are easily frightened.