Getty Images, 6 years latter.
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Often the best answer is... go to court.
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We had that happen to us.
Someone designed a web page for us, and just used images he apparently wasn't licensed for. There were 3 Getty images, and they came after us for a pretty good sum of money.
I called them, and negotiated a lower amount, but we definitely paid it, and learned a very valuable lesson. Or at least I did.
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@BRRABill said:
We had that happen to us.
Someone designed a web page for us, and just used images he apparently wasn't licensed for. There were 3 Getty images, and they came after us for a pretty good sum of money.
I called them, and negotiated a lower amount, but we definitely paid it, and learned a very valuable lesson. Or at least I did.
Right. If it's a legitimate request then we really have no option to to pay for a license weather we leave the images up or not. Which I really don't have a problem with. Doesn't mean I'm not going to get a lawyer involved first.
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@BRRABill said:
We had that happen to us.
Someone designed a web page for us, and just used images he apparently wasn't licensed for. There were 3 Getty images, and they came after us for a pretty good sum of money.
I called them, and negotiated a lower amount, but we definitely paid it, and learned a very valuable lesson. Or at least I did.
In that case, if you had an invoice, you could send them after the person that sold them to you. Likely you would have been much better off in court.
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@travisdh1 said:
Right. If it's a legitimate request then we really have no option to to pay for a license weather we leave the images up or not. Which I really don't have a problem with. Doesn't mean I'm not going to get a lawyer involved first.
How do they know that you do not have a license? For that matter, how do you know? Why would IT be involved with content licensing?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
Right. If it's a legitimate request then we really have no option to to pay for a license weather we leave the images up or not. Which I really don't have a problem with. Doesn't mean I'm not going to get a lawyer involved first.
How do they know that you do not have a license? For that matter, how do you know? Why would IT be involved with content licensing?
I'm not, I wasn't, and they've been gone for 3 years now. So with 8 warm bodies, it falls to the troubleshooter. IT in very small business, it's not all IT.
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@scottalanmiller said:
In that case, if you had an invoice, you could send them after the person that sold them to you. Likely you would have been much better off in court.
It was a friend who did it, and even with the Getty charge ended up being a good deal.
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@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller Oh, I know and understand that.
I'm also not sure if the Fair Use would cover those under the teaching, scholarship, or research exemptions.
No, it's very obliously a company site for someone who sells products. This is not fair use.
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@Jason said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller Oh, I know and understand that.
I'm also not sure if the Fair Use would cover those under the teaching, scholarship, or research exemptions.
No, it's very obliously a company site for someone who sells products. This is not fair use.
How did you determine that they sold something? I was under the impression that it was like a botanical guide offered freely online. I guess I just read into that, though.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Jason said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller Oh, I know and understand that.
I'm also not sure if the Fair Use would cover those under the teaching, scholarship, or research exemptions.
No, it's very obliously a company site for someone who sells products. This is not fair use.
How did you determine that they sold something? I was under the impression that it was like a botanical guide offered freely online. I guess I just read into that, though.
No, they just have a glossary section to help sell products, really still part of the sales.
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@Jason said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Jason said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller Oh, I know and understand that.
I'm also not sure if the Fair Use would cover those under the teaching, scholarship, or research exemptions.
No, it's very obliously a company site for someone who sells products. This is not fair use.
How did you determine that they sold something? I was under the impression that it was like a botanical guide offered freely online. I guess I just read into that, though.
No, they just have a glossary section to help sell products, really still part of the sales.
Which is why I'm probably going to be getting the lawyer involved. It's outside my area of expertise now. Yes, we do sell products on the website, yet the pages they reference are information/education only.
