Getty sues EVERYONE. They have a team that goes online searching for anyone that uses their images without paying for them. Its a huge racket that probably makes them almost as much money as their sales of images do. They are hated by many they’ve sued. In fact there are many lawsuits that have been dropped after it was discovered that they actually didn’t own the rights to them. They basically send a scary email demanding several thousand dollars or they will threaten to sue. A lot of people pay up out of fear. I had a buddy of mine get obe of their letters and he found out a photographer in Australia actually owned the rights to the the image he used who wasnt even aware Getty was claiming the copyright and heturned around and sued them!...Payback can be a beotch...lol
Getty sues EVERYONE. They have a team that goes online searching for anyone that uses their images without paying for them. Its a huge racket that probably makes them almost as much money as their sales of images do. They are hated by many they’ve sued. In fact there are many lawsuits that have been dropped after it was discovered that they actually didn’t own the rights to them. They basically send a scary email demanding several thousand dollars or they will threaten to sue. A lot of people pay up out of fear. I had a buddy of mine get one of their letters and he found out a photographer in Australia actually owned the rights to the the image he used who wasnt even aware Getty was claiming the copyright and he turned around and sued them!...Payback can be a beotch...lol
Like I said last nite, the media will never let Palin become President.
They’ll glorify a two-bit hood from Chicago and continue to do so despite being the worst POTUS in our lifetimes.
They will ignore the numerous scandals of his administration, but they will put this “scandal” on the front page of just about every major newspaper by Saturday and the comments section of those newspapers will be filled with people calling her stupid and repeating the numerous myths and lies about her that were created by the media.
The irony is that they will parrot things she never said, then call her stupid for allegedly saying them.
Basically there are too many stupid, lazy, government dependent people in the US to ever vote for someone like Palin, who stands for what America used to be before the degenerates took control of Academia, Media and Politics.
Like I said last nite, things like God, Hard work, Traditional Family, etc...are no longer valued in the US and are actually frowned upon.
But Homosexuality, Bashing religion, Trashkardian TV, Miley Cyrus, Trayvon Idolization, etc...are glamorized by the media, which is comprised mostly of queers, fema-nazi’s, marxists and America-haters/Obama-lovers.
A majority of Americans have been brainwashed by the media into believing Palin belongs in a Mental institution.
When Palin gave her acceptance speech in 2008, I stated that the media would do a hit job on her unlike anything we’ve ever seen.
Sadly, I was right.
A woman who is pro-life, who succeeded without Government assistance, who isn’t a clip-haired, angry looking lesbian will never stand a chance.
The media will eviscerate her or anyone like her, and the sheeple will follow their lead.
They would promote Rachel Jenteal as an intellectually superior candidate over Sarah Palin.
Getty (and Corbis too) also go around slapping their own copyrights on public domain photographs held at the Library of Congress. Their attack hacks threaten anyone who unknowingly use the photos, and I’ve had to point out to them repeatedly that the provenance is actually NARA-Still Picture Branch and not Getty, at which point their lawyers suddenly shut up.
Getty sued our small business. I think we just wound up not paying them.
We used this pic for years on our site, then all of a sudden get our first letter stating we owe them this amount of money for using their pic as of blah blah blah.
No warning to stop, except with payment demand. We were using that pic way before they purchased it.
That, I believe is the scheme.