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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Template Monster and Getty - my story

« on: July 27, 2011, 12:48:54 PM »

Good idea but TM can't be archived due to their roobots.txt http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.templatemonster.com but I still have that package and the password on our server.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Template Monster and Getty - my story

« on: July 27, 2011, 12:20:39 PM »

Thanks buddhapi but unfortunatelly we made our own script that imports and categorize templates and customers oreders them directly on our site and then we purchase the template and reinvoice it to the customer. We put link to the script which downloads it to our server and sends e-mail notification to the client with the link to our server and the passwords for the sources and after 12h the link is desactivated automatically.

We made it this way because we also offer the templates with our CMS so users can order an individual offer of particular template and chosen cms funcionalities and then we semi-manually prepare the offer and send it to the client. It's semi automated.

So in this case the template was invoiced by us.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Template Monster and Getty - my story

« on: July 27, 2011, 10:39:14 AM »

Hello,

Now I am in very similar situation. I am in TM affiliate program offering their templates on my site. About 3 months ago I received a  doc from an advisor representing a man claiming rights to the photos on a template - he claims he is on a photo kiteboarding and as a famous kiteboarder his  image has been reduced and he wants about 5K USD satisfaction otherwise he will bring action against me. Apart from that they mention that they buy the template on my site so that they have proofs and I can confirm he did, he is the only one who bought it.

I reply that I am in an TM affiliate program and I am not interfiring into TM packages and he should demand satisfaction from TM not me.

I contacted Steve Chizmar and asked for help. He replied he was working on it and that he was waiting for answer from Bigstockphoto -

I contacted Bigstockphoto Legal Department; they asked me for time to investigate on their end. I will follow up on this case and get back to you once there is an update. - it came 05.17.2010 and I got nothing from him since then even though I wrote to him several e-mails.

Today I received new letter from kiteboarder's advisor in which he gives time till the end of July to prove I have the rights to the photo otherwise he will bring the action to court.

I've sent next e-mail to Steve Chizmar but probably I won't get any reply. I also noticed they chenged photos on the template mentioned.

What do you suggest I should do in this case? It's really a lot of money they want from me and no support from TM so far :/.