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I had an intern use a Getty Image he found on the open internet, on our website by accident. We got maybe 100 visitors in a week. He didn’t know it was a Getty images, but yes, he should have cleared the image first.
Somehow Getty found it and tried to sue us for thousands of dollars. Literally thousands, the number was completely ridiculous.
Luckily I had good legal representation and he got it down to 500 dollars, which is still ridiculous for a small mistake.
I had an intern use a Getty Image he found on the open internet, on our website by accident. We got maybe 100 visitors in a week. He didn’t know it was a Getty images, but yes, he should have cleared the image first. Somehow Getty found it and tried to sue us for thousands of dollars. Literally thousands, the number was completely ridiculous. Luckily I had good legal representation and he got it down to 500 dollars, which is still ridiculous for a small mistake.
Get fucked, Getty
$500 seems pretty fair. It was genuine copyright infringement of a paid product for commercial use.
They sued for thousands so in the end it would be $500. If they asked $500 up front, it would have been $50.