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Higbee Associates Letter & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Higbee & Assoc. Lists RM Media Ltd in Nick Youngson Template Lawsuit

« on: September 18, 2017, 02:38:47 PM »

I would be happy to participate. We would need to find a good lawyer to represent us. Someone that has litigated these types of issues before, and has the power to see it through.

Unfortunatley I do not know much about the law and lawyers. But maybe someone else on here knows if it is a potential opportunity for a class action suit. There may not be enough here to warrant since all I have gotten so far is a threatening  letter. Some of the other folks  who have been vicimized the the extortion maybe have more of a case.

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Higbee Associates Letter & Lawsuits Forum / Re: Higbee & Assoc. Lists RM Media Ltd in Nick Youngson Template Lawsuit

« on: September 16, 2017, 02:25:45 PM »

I too have received a Higbee extortion letter just yesterday asking for $12,400 in damages for three free creative commons photos I used. I have a small business that has a blog that almost no one reads since it is so new. I pick up photos from a google search using creative commons. However, like others on here, I did not give attribution. When I got the letter I immediately took down the photos. I now am looking for ways to make sure all future photos are paid for since there are packages out there that are pretty cheap.

The letter was pretty detailed listing the statutes the power of attorney agreement and even copies of the copyrights.

I am appalled by the deceptive and coercive tactics of Higbee and Youngston. We need to let everyone we know via every channel of communication we have not to ever do business with these people and to not use Youngston's photos free or not.

You know image and content producers make their living by publicly putting their product in the market. If everyone knows to beware of RM Media and Youngston it should hurt his business significantly and he deserves to be hurt.

Is there a way to contact google so we can get him excluded from google image searches since he is running a honeypot scam using their service to do it? Seems like google would not want to be a part of this mess.

Anyway, my little company has no money and could not pay even the minimal damages. But I did think of another tactic that may work.

My business is an LLC in Florida, and Youngston is in England, and Higbee is in California. I wonder if it would be effective to file a small claims suit against both of them compelling them to come to Florida and defend against my small claims suit. Then sue them for the amount of wasted time of my work which is $250 per hour as a consultant. This could be a possible deterrent against further action against me. Since it would cost more than the $12,400 for them all to come here and defend against my small claims suit.

What do you think?