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We have received an extortion letter from GettyImages.co.uk demanding just under £1,000 payment for the innocent use of an unauthorised picture. You know the one with the guy packing boxes of fudge!! Dressed up as "protecting the photographers copyright", this letter demands this HUGE sum of money and has been sent to thousands of website designer and site owners in the US and UK.  It's a licence for Getty Inc to print money. Like he hasn't enough already!!!

We put the picture up because we wanted to make people smile. There was no malice intended and we certainly didn't think that we would be infringing a copyright. We made no profit from it and it's not exactly promotional material is it??

If you want to see the picture, e-mail me and I'll send it. I won't charge you!!! It's on loads of birthday cards and is probably on it's Billionth e-mail trip around the world. You will already know it when you see it.

You can read more about how this multinational company feasts itself on small innocent people and companies and this particular extortion racket here :-

http://extortionletterinfo.com/mycase.htm

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=390902

I don't like bullies. I smacked 'em in the mouth as a schoolboy and I'll do the same as an adult.

I'll see them in court!!