Hi folks,

Well I found this thread very useful having received one of these letters from Getty so many thanks to the posters here!

Like some others in this thread, I am from the UK and pointed out things like the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, the Administration of Justice Act 1970 and the Malicious Communications Act 1988 to them having already removed the image after their first letter and ensuring that I was completely unaware of any copyright.

They got back to me after a couple of weeks saying that they still want compensation and they reckon that they basically don't accept what I quoted in the above acts. They funnily enough studiously ignored my request for evidence that the image (accidentally) used had never been royalty free or licence free prior to, say, getty buying another image or subsequently acquiring the image some other way.

I have emailed them back to request this again and I am basically going to keep delaying them like this until they get bored and give up. They are not getting a penny out of me!

Does anyone else here have an update on their Getty status?

Thanks.