Where to complain about Masterfile's Extortion and Abuse of US Copyright Law

[Nemen Night]

Directory of Attorney General's offices by state:
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/stateattorneygenerallist.php
http://workathomemoms.about.com/od/workathomescams/a/State-Attorney-General.htm


Directory of Senators by state:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Directory of House Representatives by state:
http://www.house.gov/representatives/


Below are major TV networks that expose various scams:

CNBC American Greed:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41235608/

NBC Dateline:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032600/
[email protected]

ABC News 20/20:
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123566&page=1

The Nightly News"

There are many more news agencies. Find them and email your letter to all of them. The journalists only wait to get their hands on a brand new topic.

If you know other great links, please post them. Also, if you have a great idea how and where to complain, or if you can write a good complaint letter that others can use and send it everywhere, please post it as well.

You can complain anonymously! But, make a brand new email contact just in case someone would want additional information.
Allways provide link to this website to back up your letter.

Also see:
http://www.consumersheldhostage.org/issues/legal/copyright-trolling

If you know a good link to a video or other media describing their practice, please post it here too.

[Katerina]

When I read posts like this, I catch myself thinking "wow, yes, we definitely should contact these institutions regarding the issue", and then I think "and what to complain about? about that my husband used an image without proper license and MF tried to recover their "damages"?"
Yes, what they are doing is not ethic, and they ask too much, yes, that's how they make money. But they act under the Law. I agree, that we have to complain in order to get attention, but the complain should be reasonable, contain trustworthy information about their activity, have necessary proves for complains and be referred to original resources if possible (like copyright law), in order to show that what they are doing and/or how they are doing this is not right.
I do wish to complain to Attorney General, FBI, etc. I am just looking the proper way to do this.
I do wish to bring public attention to this issue and to warn other "potential" infringers about what can happen. And I try to work it out if I can.

[Katerina]

It was also posted in the forum that 85% of stock photo agencies are from infringement claims. Where are the resources, proving that this is a business model, registering images in US Copyright office, using US copyright law, and demand thousands of dollars from US residents to be paid to Canadian company? Can it be considered as an abuse of US copyright law and usage in purpose of enrichment? this is just my thought......
any ideas?