We're Being Sued by gettyimages.
Tsk Tsk
I was wondering who would put the final nail in our coffin. Google's done a pretty good job of getting rid of us, but gettyimages is going to get their licks in also.
We bought a disk of 100,000 royalty free images from Serif.com back in 2006. We don't resell images but we do use them in our free web template collections, which is legal by our license agreement.
gettyimages is now informing us that some of the images we bought from Serf.com are theirs.
They are also sueing us for displaying thumbnails of templates that Ucoz.com uses in their website builder.
Sounds to me like they're splitting hairs on that one to make some extra money.
We've been online in some form since 1997. When copyright infringement became the new vehicle for making money, we had removed just about anything we'd added in old days off of scanned calendars and such. We may have missed a couple.
I could see being sued for that, but thumbnails and pictures by guys like Hans Merten and others who sold distribution rights to more than one company, I mean - Get Real!!
Anybody know if Google owns gettyimages?
See all 3 images Here. If you are promoting templates for other companies on your website using thumbnail images, You May Be at RISK!!
I'm old and tired people. Tired of the foolishness the internet has turned into. I'm especially tired of companies like gettyimages who evidently can't make an honest living doing business as usual. Now they're claiming the rights to images they don't own or selling the rights to images that one of their designers sold to several different companies.
I've finished most of the updates to HTML5 in our HTML tutorial. I think I'll publish what's finished and forget the rest.
We'll probably be saying sia nora in a couple of weeks, so get what you can.
We may be on our way out, but we'll make sure to help gettyimages rebuild their corporate image on our way!.
Signed: Sick & Tired
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