On 03/03/2008, WJhonson(a)aol.com <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
Just to address the "lawyers are not required to
send a 'takedown' notice"
By this I assume BC means a "cease and desist". I believe this is de facto
false. While it is true a lawyer could file a suit for anything, any case
being brought, without having made any preliminary action to correct the issue,
would be, imho, thrown out of court.
The first thing a judge looks at is, "have you attempted to correct this out
of court" ? That is did you make any attempt to settle this without wasting
the court's time ?
Unfortunately they can demand money as part of their attempt to settle
out of court. A few hundred dollars is not unusual (see people
moaning about picscout). A few hundred per pics so say about a million
for 2K images. Of course that is rather less than you risk ending up
paying if you take is to court.
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geni