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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Help! Debt collection letter arrived
« on: January 09, 2013, 08:42:00 AM »
I have also received this letter from Attriadus around 18 months after I thought Getty went away.
Quick history: I buy all of my images, but missed one small one by mistake. Getty demanded a settlement of £1,225 for this image, even though I took it down, apologized and purchased a retrospective license for £30.
Since then I haven't heard from them for over a year. Then, I got the Christmas email from Atradius.
I think I made a mistake of replying to say that I had a licence, which opened the door to a bombardment of cut-and-paste letters with incorrect dates etc. So far I have responded to tell them to get lost, but I've been bombarded with more harassing and quite unprofessional emails.
They don't seem to be bothered that the amount they are asking for is arbitrary and not at all commensurate with the value of the license. I'm not a repeat offender. I'd be happy to pay a reasonable penalty and put it down to experience, but this really is extortion.
Not sure what the next step is. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks for posting progress on here guys. This really does seem like the worst case of big companies trying to squash the small man.
Quick history: I buy all of my images, but missed one small one by mistake. Getty demanded a settlement of £1,225 for this image, even though I took it down, apologized and purchased a retrospective license for £30.
Since then I haven't heard from them for over a year. Then, I got the Christmas email from Atradius.
I think I made a mistake of replying to say that I had a licence, which opened the door to a bombardment of cut-and-paste letters with incorrect dates etc. So far I have responded to tell them to get lost, but I've been bombarded with more harassing and quite unprofessional emails.
They don't seem to be bothered that the amount they are asking for is arbitrary and not at all commensurate with the value of the license. I'm not a repeat offender. I'd be happy to pay a reasonable penalty and put it down to experience, but this really is extortion.
Not sure what the next step is. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks for posting progress on here guys. This really does seem like the worst case of big companies trying to squash the small man.