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Getty Images Letter Forum / Carolyn Wright and Others
« on: June 01, 2014, 02:26:10 AM »
I'm new to this forum. In looking back through some of the old posts, I see that others have had the pleasure of dealing with the Carolyn Wright "Firm of Extortion." One of my clients just received a letter from her accusing my client of violating the copyright of photographer Kristin Pierson by the use of one Facebook photo on his small business's web page. For a mere $13,000, the problem will simply disappear. The letter was strongly worded, and had the intended effect of scaring my client to death, but luckily he contacted me before responding. Just for fun, I did a copyright search on the photographer's name, and she has only one copyright - and it's 14 years old, and for a sculpture, not a photograph!
I have a number of small and medium size companies as clients (I'm a business lawyer), and this is the third time in as many months that one of them has received an extortion letter - each time from a different lawyer for an unrelated infringement. Two were for photos, and one was for the client's website's privacy policy, of all things.
The legal profession has a bad enough reputation as it is. This expanding group of copyright trolls is downright embarrassing!
I have a number of small and medium size companies as clients (I'm a business lawyer), and this is the third time in as many months that one of them has received an extortion letter - each time from a different lawyer for an unrelated infringement. Two were for photos, and one was for the client's website's privacy policy, of all things.
The legal profession has a bad enough reputation as it is. This expanding group of copyright trolls is downright embarrassing!