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Originally Posted by kingdoz
Hi Guys,
I would like some comments and ideas of what to do now... Has anyone had any dealings with getty and breach of image copyright?
We built a small website for a client and an old designer who worked for me from India, used google images to find some images for the website. I think he took the images from another website or something without giving it a second thought, which I know is wrong but I cant check these things all the time.
Anyway, a year later my client gets a letter from Getty threatening to sue for breach of copyright for 2 images which they say is theirs. My client phoned me up in panic.
I immediately removed those images, but our client received another letter from Getty demanding £2937.50 for using those 2 small images otherwise they will sue and they say it doesn't matter that we removed them as they have already been used. Its a crazy amount to pay Getty for 2 rubbishy photos anyway (they charge approx £100 each for them but because we used illegally they can charge nearly £1500 in their small print). We had no idea they originally came from Getty anyway when found on google and this Indian chap now disappeared.
Does anyone know if they indeed will sue our client or us, or are they just flexing their muscles? Any advice or will be appreciated.
Thanks - James
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Has anyone received a letter from Getty RE Unauthorized Use of Getty Images Photograph? If so what happened? I believe it is illegal as they did not sedn a Cease and Desist letter first.