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Old 11-11-2005, 07:22 PM   #10 (permalink)
Andy_Pearlman
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I don't know whether I should be glad, or insulted, but they don't have any of my shots posted there. Yet.

For the rest of you who do, I thought it was interesting in all the comments so far, that of the people who discuss suiing, no one mentioned whether or not their images had been registered with the Copyright office. The company sounds like a viable one with assets to go after if you won a judgement, but for those of you who might have a hard time finding an attorney, one reason might be if your images were not registered. WITH registration, all the attorney has to do is show the image was used without your consent, and you qualify for $7500 per infringement minimum, $150k maximum. On top of that, the judge can award attorney's fees. If you did not register the images, you don't get any of those things, only whatever the judge decides you would have been paid had the client struck a deal with you up front. No lawyer is going to walk into such a case without a hefty retainer if the images weren't registered.

All my images are registered before you see them on GG (which sometimes explains the delay in my posting them) or anywhere else. Maybe the folks on the site in question know this?

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Andy Pearlman
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