Getting sued is expensive business even if you are in the right defending it can cost you a firtune. To then go back to court to get damages or costs is as a lawyer friend puts it, i"if you escaped from the lions den would you go back to get your hat"?

Getty's problem if they take one of these cases to court and lose their good little erner is over and so while they are making a profit by frightening people into paying theywill be happy with that.

My solution in this day and age is to put the web site ownership into a propriety limited company that has a paid up capital of $2 and don't do any business or buy any assets in that company. That way if they do go to court which would be highly unlikely and get a judgement against you there will be nothing to collect anyway. There Lawyers won't take a no asset company to court anyway.

If you are waiting on tender hook hoping they don't act move your bsuiness and assets into another company now and leave the one they are maybe going to sue penniless. I have been bantering back and forth with them over 3 small images and they originally wanted about $4K and then discounted to $3K but I have offered them as a good will gesture $50 as being 10 times what the images would have cost. Yet to see what they come back with.