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Riddick/Imageline Letter Forum / Re: George P. Riddick III Chairman/CEO Imageline, Inc.

« on: March 03, 2009, 08:12:46 PM »

EdTeach --

What do you mean by "his allegations are largely unfounded" ?    Do you have some evidence that he really does not have legal copyright claims to the images he is trying to get money for?   If so, please pass that info on to the admin here.

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Riddick/Imageline Letter Forum / "Single Trail of Emails to One Letter Recipient" Comments

« on: February 26, 2009, 05:49:50 PM »

The "Single Trail of Emails to One Letter Recipient" on the right side of this new page you just added   http://extortionletterinfo.com/riddick-letters.htm   reads like a Nigerian 419 scam.   Thanks for posting those emails....  

You better settle with me or I'll sue you with my new contingency lawyers.  You better settle with me or I'll sue you with my new contingency lawyers.  You better settle with me or I'll sue you with my new contingency lawyers.  You better settle with me or I'll sue you with my new contingency lawyers.  You better settle with me or I'll sue you with my new contingency lawyers.  You better settle with me or I'll sue you with my new contingency lawyers.  You better settle with me or I'll sue you with my new contingency lawyers.  You better settle with me or I'll sue you with my new contingency lawyers...

... For 5 months!  Wow.  Those are some great new lawyers.  

Pat

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Riddick/Imageline Letter Forum / Re: George Riddick III Imageline

« on: February 26, 2009, 12:06:00 PM »

Oscar -

Thank you for jumping in on this problem.  I feel like I have been a victim of attempted extrotion, or at least harrassment or fraud.   Would the FBI become involved in stopping him from these activities?  

And is a class action suit possible against him?   It would be nice if we could pool our resources in paying for fees needed and then share in dividing his assets after the lawyer fees are paid.  

Thank you so much!

Pat

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Riddick/Imageline Letter Forum / Re: George Riddick III Imageline

« on: February 25, 2009, 02:47:21 PM »

Victim2  

Thank you. I will do that.  Please DO forward anything you can to Oscar so we can get something started with him representing us.  

Thanks.

Pat

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Riddick/Imageline Letter Forum / Re: New CLONE Hits Embroidery Community

« on: February 25, 2009, 11:23:59 AM »

After reading the settlement terms it occurs to me that Riddick must be planning on opening his own embroidery design sales site or he wouldn't be interested in accepting designs from the people making settlements.  When he opens that site, will he then be selling to end users who will later on be victims of his extortion letter?

It looks like this whole thing is a big setup.  Maybe he will be setting those folks up for later income to his business.

Pat

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Riddick/Imageline Letter Forum / Re: George Riddick III Imageline

« on: February 25, 2009, 10:33:42 AM »

Thanks for your reply on my post (below).  What really bothers me is that as people settle, they are funding his future lawsuits against those who do not settle.  If or when he decides to sue.  

Where can I find this network of other victims?  Would they be willing to use this forum?  Would that be okay with the site owner?  

Pat

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Riddick/Imageline Letter Forum / New Getty CLONE Hits Embroidery Community

« on: February 25, 2009, 09:00:15 AM »

George P Reddick representing Imageline Inc has sent me an email saying my website has infringed on his company's images.  The website creates and sells embroidery designs using images available from various sources.  He has identified several images that belong to his company's image library but were purchased by me from either Jupiterimages website (clipart.com) or from a CD-Rom of images.  Both touted "Royalty Free" etc on the front page of the site and on the packaging in the case of the CD.  And their terms of use on the website seemed to indicate that using thier artwork for embroidery designs was acceptable use.  In fact, clipart.com's site still says this on thier home page...  or it did until I went to copy it here.  And it's gone.  (I think I have saved a copy of that)

In checking with friends in our industry it seems that many of them have received the same email and follow-up emails recently.  Others have been dealing with it for as much as 6 weeks now.  Several have paid the extortion money in one form or another. Others are fretting over what to do.  He is claiming $7,500 per image used, but he is such a nice guy that he will accept a fraction of that money (20% to 25%) as long as the person turns over all the embroidery designs created with his images and agrees to also give him additional designs not created with his images that he then credits to their account in the amount of $200 per design, plus agrees to work for him making additional designs.  They can also get a credit for turning in other people that they discover to have used his company's artwork.

His images appear to be legally copyrighted by the documentation sent to a couple of these folks so that won't be a defense in this situation, at least I don't think it will be.  I'm looking for any input from Oscar and others on this new scam.  Also, I wanted to start this thread here for others in the embroidery design business who receive his emails and start searching for what to do next.

Thanks for your help.

Pat


PS:  I forgot to ask...   once someone settles with Imageline, what happens when Jupiter comes knocking on their door?  If the images came from clipart.com (owned by Jupiter) and were copyrighted to Imageline, would these folks then be liable again?