Getty's actions are targeted towards punishing small business owners. For unintentional and minor offenses their letters are incredibly intimidating, their fines are outrageous and their staff is unbelievably rude. They should be stopped from this behavior.
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Gail Brown
12 years ago
Tell everyone to sign this petition and never use Getty
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Brian T
12 years ago
It would be great to crowdfund the legal fees required to go after these guys and their extortion-based business model.
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John Favreau
12 years ago
We are currently fighting a settlement "bill" for over $800. We are not going to pay it.
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Dan Regic
12 years ago
A friend of mine contacted the phototagrapher on LinkedIn and confirmed it was not her work. She was very nice and told me about Tineye.com where you can upload the image in question to see if is even on Getty's website.
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Ivan Nedeltchev
12 years ago
I have received an outrageous letter from the company as well. they have to go down,
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Dooley P
12 years ago
Meta data, no copyright iconography, in short, they extort with minimal evidence of wrong doing
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Lori Gershaw
12 years ago
I completely support your efforts to boycott Getty Images and hope that the federal authorities take up the case on behalf of unsuspecting small businesses like mine. I support and encourage an investigation into their deceitful business practices as I believe much will be uncovered.
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Otlyn Black
12 years ago
My personal life is in turmoil because of this scam.
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Peter Finch
12 years ago
My family have been badly affected by this scam. Please stop it now!
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Anonymous
12 years ago
Companies like Getty Images are disgusting their main business is extorting people by sending their demand letters.
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Anonymous
12 years ago
We are based in Netherlands, Europe and recently received such a letter of GI for use of three very small images in 2006 (!) when we just strated our blog (sicne 2007 until 2014 we only use images licensed for use on our blog from Fotolia. iStock (GI owned) for our IPEG blog, www.ipeg.com. Being former IP attorney myself I will take this case up to court in Netherlands, if need be, as the allegations are out of proportions, ill advised, abusive and outreageous.
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Tina Huang
12 years ago
I am outraged by the letter I got. I did not intend to infringe upon copyright violation, and instead of giving me a chance to correct the problem by buying the image for the cost of it, I'm told I have to pay $780. If there was a way I could tell if I'm violating copyright, I'd love to know! There needs to be more laws in place to protect business owners and bloggers so that we don't unintentionally violate copyright, and if we do that we are given a warning, and and maybe even reasonable penalty for doing so. $780 is insane!
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Mohan
12 years ago
They also send latter to me without using any image of getty.
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Jonna Mcclure
12 years ago
What an outrageous company.
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Judy Reagan
12 years ago
Preying on small businesses who struggle to survive. SHAMEFUL!!
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John Cellurale
12 years ago
They are scammers!
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Anonymous
12 years ago
Getty Image send to a client a letter 2 years ago, I respond it and they desist, now they are back increasing the amount and treat us like criminals bullying my client with a sue, no cease letter, not warning, no payment plans, no consideration at all!! is not law against this? plus, another client paid and they are trying to charge again, a YEAR LATER!
Boycott !
Getty's actions are targeted towards punishing small business owners. For unintentional and minor offenses their letters are incredibly intimidating, their fines are outrageous and their staff is unbelievably rude. They should be stopped from this behavior.
Tell everyone to sign this petition and never use Getty
It would be great to crowdfund the legal fees required to go after these guys and their extortion-based business model.
We are currently fighting a settlement "bill" for over $800. We are not going to pay it.
A friend of mine contacted the phototagrapher on LinkedIn and confirmed it was not her work. She was very nice and told me about Tineye.com where you can upload the image in question to see if is even on Getty's website.
I have received an outrageous letter from the company as well. they have to go down,
Meta data, no copyright iconography, in short, they extort with minimal evidence of wrong doing
I completely support your efforts to boycott Getty Images and hope that the federal authorities take up the case on behalf of unsuspecting small businesses like mine. I support and encourage an investigation into their deceitful business practices as I believe much will be uncovered.
My personal life is in turmoil because of this scam.
My family have been badly affected by this scam. Please stop it now!
Companies like Getty Images are disgusting their main business is extorting people by sending their demand letters.
We are based in Netherlands, Europe and recently received such a letter of GI for use of three very small images in 2006 (!) when we just strated our blog (sicne 2007 until 2014 we only use images licensed for use on our blog from Fotolia. iStock (GI owned) for our IPEG blog, www.ipeg.com. Being former IP attorney myself I will take this case up to court in Netherlands, if need be, as the allegations are out of proportions, ill advised, abusive and outreageous.
I am outraged by the letter I got. I did not intend to infringe upon copyright violation, and instead of giving me a chance to correct the problem by buying the image for the cost of it, I'm told I have to pay $780. If there was a way I could tell if I'm violating copyright, I'd love to know! There needs to be more laws in place to protect business owners and bloggers so that we don't unintentionally violate copyright, and if we do that we are given a warning, and and maybe even reasonable penalty for doing so. $780 is insane!
They also send latter to me without using any image of getty.
What an outrageous company.
Preying on small businesses who struggle to survive. SHAMEFUL!!
They are scammers!
Getty Image send to a client a letter 2 years ago, I respond it and they desist, now they are back increasing the amount and treat us like criminals bullying my client with a sue, no cease letter, not warning, no payment plans, no consideration at all!! is not law against this? plus, another client paid and they are trying to charge again, a YEAR LATER!
Hope this helps.