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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: settlement demand letter from Getty Image. What to do?

« on: July 30, 2010, 03:32:07 PM »

Thanks for the info.

It is kind of like you are walking down the street and someone slips something into your pocket.  It is a stolen item from a shop on the street.  You notice it is in your pocket and you take it out.  You look for the owner but can not find it.  Then you are attacked by a SWAT team.  Possession of item means you are guilty, now pay 100 times the lic fee and we will let you go.

Ok now for the real question.  Say you pay this one violation just to get it off your desk; you assume the payment ends this issue.  Three months later you get a notice for 10 more images.  

You have already agreed to the fees previously, so have paying the fees previously ended your legal ability to fight the second notice and expect to win?

Thanks

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: settlement demand letter from Getty Image. What to do?

« on: July 29, 2010, 04:03:57 PM »

Hi Everyone

They are after me also.  There is a whole other side to this.  Getty and like, obviously have some kind of software that can scan your website for ID markers and/or image recognition.  

So the really unfair part of this whole deal is that they are not sharing their technology with us.

Say you are a company owner and have a website and were told your images are lic’ed correctly.  You don't actually know and there is no way to find out if the images on your website are lic’ed.  

So you are stuck just waiting for them to find you.  Getty and companies owned by Getty literally have millions of photos it could take you months to find the images that are on your website and probably will not find them as at some point you will give up.  

This puts you in the position of having to replace all the images and they win again.

The fair thing to do, and a court somewhere should force them to do is share the technology that they are using to find these images, and give it to the public.  This way it is a win, win for everyone involved.


Thanks for the rant.