I have exchanged a few e-mails with getty at this point. As of my last email I told getty that there seems to be an issue with ownership to a prospective image (that I am not even sure is the image)
And that if they wanted to pursue the issue further to contact the Individual that claims ownership of the image. It has been a week since that email... we'll see what happens, I hope liferev is correct.
I gotta tell ya, that at first getty was asking for $1400 for the image in question, and on their own have brought it down to $1000....
I am prepaid to go to court over it... it is the principle of the matter.
And I will never do business with getty because of this tactic.