[SunShineCleaning]

I put my website together myself and purchaced pictures from Fotolia.
However I overlooked one of the pictures I used when I set it up. This was a picture downloaded from the web and placed on my site. I intended to replace with a Fotolia picture, but didn't really want the page.   

The page has not been linked to my main site for years and I should have deleted the page altogether. I forgot.

I am now in reciept of a bill from Getty Images for unlicened use of a picture thay have the rights to.

That bill is for £968.00 

Lesson. Unless you know where the pictures come from dont use them as they may find and fine you.

[weetot]

Thats a bit rough!

[Window Washers]

I put my website together myself and purchaced pictures from Fotolia.
However I overlooked one of the pictures I used when I set it up. This was a picture downloaded from the web and placed on my site. I intended to replace with a Fotolia picture, but didn't really want the page.   

The page has not been linked to my main site for years and I should have deleted the page altogether. I forgot.

I am now in reciept of a bill from Getty Images for unlicened use of a picture thay have the rights to.

That bill is for £968.00 

Lesson. Unless you know where the pictures come from dont use them as they may find and fine you.

Lance call me, I had this happen to me because some person used an image of thiers and cropped it in an image I then changed to make my own. they have spiders out there looking all the time for these images, so many on here will at some point will be getting a letter from them, a good thing it shows your are getting traffic to your site

if you need to talk about this give me a call one evening, do not pay this bill till you have spoke to me dude, I could save you this £900 odd.


Ian

[Pope vader]

whats the pic

[Window Washers]

whats the pic

Ori, it does not matter what the pic is, they catch you on pixels and mapping an image, basically as an example if you have a square centimeter of an image and add it to your own, if it came from one of there images you are in breach of there licensing even if you don't know about it (meaning if a designer did this cheap you are liable), if you host it your the one that pays, and they do take to court, they do this to protect their clients that add their images to getty's library for sale.

More and more of this will happen, they have programs running 24/7 processing every image in search results, so the clever people that steal images online taking from Google without paying etc and then put them on their sites will need to worry as they will be on a getty list. 

[Paul Coleman]

So could you get around it by renaming the file and altering the dpi in image manipulation software and/or compressing it a bit?

[Window Washers]

So could you get around it by renaming the file and altering the dpi in image manipulation software and/or compressing it a bit?

if it mirrors what they have Paul, then I would guess no mate, I edited some clouds and made smaller from an image in a template and they caught me.

[H S and Son]

Getty always negotiate.

[Window Washers]

Getty always negotiate.

they also try to trip you up, and get more money Matt

[Bushboy]

Crap , I just told my web designer to copy a load of  images for various
Pics , will have to rethink , is it best to take them myself or is there
a data base where for free window cleaner images , was looking for
Pressure washing images , gutter clearing etc , window cleaning ,
Close shave ! 

Cheers

[Pope vader]

so who gets done

you who web site it is

the web design

host company

[Window Washers]

Crap , I just told my web designer to copy a load of  images for various
Pics , will have to rethink , is it best to take them myself or is there
a data base where for free window cleaner images , was looking for
Pressure washing images , gutter clearing etc , window cleaning ,
Close shave ! 

Cheers

istockphoto.com 123rf.com free iamges.co.uk sxc.hu gettyimages.com

these are all cheap getty not as cheap as others  

Or take your own they are free, but take good ones

[Window Washers]

Ori, if you are paying for the hosting you get done as you ok it, you can argue with the web designer but it is you mate sorry to say.

[SunShineCleaning]

I put my website together myself and purchaced pictures from Fotolia.
However I overlooked one of the pictures I used when I set it up. This was a picture downloaded from the web and placed on my site. I intended to replace with a Fotolia picture, but didn't really want the page.   

The page has not been linked to my main site for years and I should have deleted the page altogether. I forgot.

I am now in reciept of a bill from Getty Images for unlicened use of a picture thay have the rights to.

That bill is for £968.00 

Lesson. Unless you know where the pictures come from dont use them as they may find and fine you.

Lance call me, I had this happen to me because some person used an image of thiers and cropped it in an image I then changed to make my own. they have spiders out there looking all the time for these images, so many on here will at some point will be getting a letter from them, a good thing it shows your are getting traffic to your site

if you need to talk about this give me a call one evening, do not pay this bill till you have spoke to me dude, I could save you this £900 odd.


Ian

I may call you if thats ok some time this week. Thanks

[Window Washers]

I put my website together myself and purchaced pictures from Fotolia.
However I overlooked one of the pictures I used when I set it up. This was a picture downloaded from the web and placed on my site. I intended to replace with a Fotolia picture, but didn't really want the page.   

The page has not been linked to my main site for years and I should have deleted the page altogether. I forgot.

I am now in reciept of a bill from Getty Images for unlicened use of a picture thay have the rights to.

That bill is for £968.00 

Lesson. Unless you know where the pictures come from dont use them as they may find and fine you.

Lance call me, I had this happen to me because some person used an image of thiers and cropped it in an image I then changed to make my own. they have spiders out there looking all the time for these images, so many on here will at some point will be getting a letter from them, a good thing it shows your are getting traffic to your site

if you need to talk about this give me a call one evening, do not pay this bill till you have spoke to me dude, I could save you this £900 odd.


Ian

I may call you if thats ok some time this week. Thanks

no probs at all 

[H S and Son]

Getty always negotiate.

they also try to trip you up, and get more money Matt

I'm sure they do. I'd have told them 2K, they must be slipping ;0)

[Window Washers]

Getty always negotiate.

they also try to trip you up, and get more money Matt

I'm sure they do. I'd have told them 2K, they must be slipping ;0)

when am I getting my SLX anyway ?

[H S and Son]

 

It was a CLX.

[H S and Son]

These are quite interesting

http://extortionletterinfo.com/

http://www.zyra.info/getstu.htm

http://womeninbusiness.about.com/od/copyrightlaws/a/How-Can-Getty-Demand-More-For-An-Image-Than-Worth.htm

[Dave Mills]

Sorry its happened to you.

The moral is, pay for your images from an image supplier. It costs at the most a couple of quid for a licenced image. Keep your receipts for the ones you have bought, in case the supplier (or their supplier) nicked them in the first place.

We use istockphoto and have spent about £30 or so. Much cheaper than getting one of these demands in your email; they WILL get you, no matter what you do to their pictures. They smell the money, they have the technology.