York Photographer Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Check this out! https://www.diyphotography.net/internet-entrepreneur-shocked-copyright-owner-sued-stealing-work/ And he feels hard done by! Posted by Rob Cook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Poor chap. I feel so sorry for the poor guy. Lesson learned? Obviously not. He openly says he's going to carry on lifting stuff from Google Images for his business(es). Guy's an idiot and deserves all he gets from those (malicious!) copyright owners! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeCee Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Maybe if he keeps on shouting about how malicious and nasty the photographer was to him, he might just get sued for libel too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Google Getty extortion letter. This is where they all get the idea that they are the victim of a malicious photographer. That there are malicious photographers out there at all. A bit like patent trolls. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdh Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 1 hour ago, wiskerke said: Google Getty extortion letter. This is where they all get the idea that they are the victim of a malicious photographer. That there are malicious photographers out there at all. A bit like patent trolls. wim Getty comes really cheap @ $780 per picture. The stubborn guy from the OP paid $27.000 to the photographer and had $10.000 in legal fees. I was flabbergasted when in the video he said he is still nicking graphics and photos off google search - despite his learnings. Is there a comparative for stubborn???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njene Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Cant change stupid... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin P Wilson Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 17 hours ago, hdh said: Getty comes really cheap @ $780 per picture. The stubborn guy from the OP paid $27.000 to the photographer and had $10.000 in legal fees. I was flabbergasted when in the video he said he is still nicking graphics and photos off google search - despite his learnings. Is there a comparative for stubborn???? And hopefully those statements will be used against him when he is again dragged to court for copyright theft, and increase the punitive part of the damages accordingly. Just a thought: if he incurred legal fees of $10K then his lawyers must have seen him coming. Surely they did not advise him to defend the indefensible in court? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 I doubt this ever got near a court but US lawyers are very expensive. That was probably their fee just for advising him to settle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 If no briefs were written and submitted to the court, I can’t see $10,000. But if dispositions were taken, briefs written, back and forth between attorneys, I could see it. Several hours are set aside, usually a couple of attorneys attend depos or one attorney and a legal assistant along with a steno. There’s also arbitration expenses if it went that way. Been there, done that. Got the tee shirt. But my attorney only got paid if I won a court trial or got a settlement. Contingency agreement. We did the deposition, not arbitration. Settled. The insurance company of the guy driving the truck that hit me paid. This guy stealing images was so blatantly wrong no way would his attorney(s) take it on contingency unless stupid was his/their middle names. Betty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Morgan Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 11 hours ago, Martin P Wilson said: And hopefully those statements will be used against him when he is again dragged to court for copyright theft, and increase the punitive part of the damages accordingly. Just a thought: if he incurred legal fees of $10K then his lawyers must have seen him coming. Surely they did not advise him to defend the indefensible in court? He would have had to pay the photographer's court costs as well as his own since he was found guilty. Jill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandyD Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 hopefully he's in a jurisdiction where he will get slammed with punitive damages next time too....because there will be a next time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 On 06/11/2017 at 22:24, hdh said: I was flabbergasted when in the video he said he is still nicking graphics and photos off google search - despite his learnings. Is there a comparative for stubborn???? I wonder how much revenue he gets every time his Youtube video gets watched?? 213,000 views so far... Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 1 hour ago, M.Chapman said: I wonder how much revenue he gets every time his Youtube video gets watched?? 213,000 views so far... Mark Oh, the irony! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foreign Export Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 On 07/11/2017 at 09:24, hdh said: Getty comes really cheap @ $780 per picture. The stubborn guy from the OP paid $27.000 to the photographer and had $10.000 in legal fees. I was flabbergasted when in the video he said he is still nicking graphics and photos off google search - despite his learnings. Is there a comparative for stubborn???? not stubborn- just stupidity- maybe we can all get a turn to sue him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colblimp Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 On 11/6/2017 at 22:24, hdh said: Is there a comparative for stubborn???? Yeah - a brain dead moron, perhaps?!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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