Received a Letter from Masterfile

[Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi)]

Geoffrey beal is an asshole in my humble opinion... As we've told you before, they won't sue you, and if they did and they won, you have no money, they have nothing to gain either way... You've acknowledged them once and got the expected response...I generally don't advice to ignore it, but in this case i' am going to advice just that..you have nothing, apparently they only have an email address for you, so you can't be "served"....If i were in your shoes, I'd delete the email block the email address from my email progrom, and go on with life..

[cstockwell]

also Bill Frymire's images were bulk registered in the US in a CD format.  This format has been called into question and will likely not hold up in court again. 

[Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi)]

also Bill Frymire's images were bulk registered in the US in a CD format.  This format has been called into question and will likely not hold up in court again.

Great point there!! after Masterfile took that ass beating with Chaga International, it makes it even more unlikely they would file suit over this.. did I mention what I thought of Geoffrey Beal?

[cstockwell]

Here is one of the things I found out about Bill after I started researching him because his image was what got my masterfile letter.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,25965429

interesting stuff.  I had respected him and felt bad about using his image (although it was in an altered state from its original form and came from another search that I thought was public domain...neither here nor there) until I found this post.  Then I started searching more about anything at all I could find about him, the gutless worm who sent the letter and the pussy masterfile owner. 

[Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi)]

That thing about the old book is interesting indeed, if those images are in the public domain, and he photographs said images, are "his copies" no longer in the public domain? I'm guess not, and I'm guessing if he registered them, they would be deemed invalid. perhaps Oscar can shed some light on this..

[InMOTION_Pgh]

I was wondering how your situation turned out.  I recently received a letter form this Geoffrey Beal character and it looks like he's trying to shake down the little guy yet again.