{"id":568,"date":"2010-05-16T21:41:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T01:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nscadesign.ca\/mleblanc\/?p=568"},"modified":"2013-09-08T09:35:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T12:35:58","slug":"anti-downloading-law-firm-caught-infringing-ip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Downloading Law Firm Caught Infringing IP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-571\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nscadesign.ca\/leblanc.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Screen-shot-2010-05-16-at-9.48.40-PM.png\" rel=\"lightbox[568]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-571 \" title=\"Screen shot 2010-05-16 at 9.48.40 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/nscadesign.ca\/leblanc.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Screen-shot-2010-05-16-at-9.48.40-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is a copyright violation here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was recently reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thresq.hollywoodreporter.com\/2010\/05\/hurt-locker-producer-to-sue-pirates.html\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> that a legal firm called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.savecinema.org\/index.html\">US Copyright Group<\/a>\u201d is seeking to sue thousands of Bittorrent users for copyright infringement. The website for this group of lawyers uses stock photography and html frames (who uses frames nowadays?) \u2014 it&#8217;s a real classy design job. I was curious about these images. Having used some stock photography in the past, I know that, depending on the license, you have to give credit to the photographer, the collection and\/or the image company.<\/p>\n<p>Using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tineye.com\">TinEye<\/a> it was determined that the stock image used on their \u201cSolutions\u201d page is Getty Images\u2019 royalty-free photo #<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/86512636#p\">86512636<\/a>. But just because it&#8217;s \u2018royalty-free\u2019 doesn&#8217;t mean that the photo can be used without credit. IP lawyers, above all, should know that the license agreement sometimes contains \u2018gotchas\u2019. Getty Images&#8217; Royalty-Free Image and Footage License Agreement, Section 4.3, states that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All Licensed Material used in an editorial context, <strong><em>must include the  following credit line<\/em><\/strong> adjacent to the Licensed Material:  &#8220;[Photographer&#8217;s Name]\/[Collection Name]\/Getty Images&#8221; or as otherwise  shown on the Getty Images website. If Licensee omits the credit, an  additional fee in an amount up to one hundred percent (100%) of the  License Fee may be payable by Licensee, at Getty Images&#8217; sole  discretion. The foregoing fee shall be in addition to any other rights  or remedies that Getty Images may have at law or in equity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And as you can see in this screen shot, there is no photo credit for Getty Images. I wonder what \u201crights and remedies\u201d the copyright holder will exact from these scofflaws?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was recently reported by Boing Boing and The Hollywood Reporter that a legal firm called \u201cUS Copyright Group\u201d is seeking to sue thousands of Bittorrent users for copyright infringement. The website for this group of lawyers uses stock photography and html frames (who uses frames nowadays?) \u2014 it&#8217;s a real classy design job. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/?p=568\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anti-Downloading Law Firm Caught Infringing IP<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[8,35,53,107],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","tag-design","tag-internet","tag-tineye","tag-world-wide-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}