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If Rogers would redirect some of the 10′s or 100′s of millions of dollars it spends advertising and promoting itself in every conceivable and inconceivable medium and use it to improve the quality and consistency of its product and to greatly reduce the rates it charges Canadians who pay more than any other country in the world including 3rd world countries it would be a boon to millions of subscribers.
But then what can one expect from a pampered monopoly?

Mickey Oberman

After looking around the web a bit more I have come across some information that I feel would be beneficial to what has already been answered here. Granted this particular article I found is from May 2010, so I’m not sure to what extent Google has cha…

$4000.00 was extremely excessive. Had the client not been involved, I would have told them to eat dirt.

Complying with a C&D is something you should have done– the first part of it anyway– the C&D part. Paying damages is the part where webcopyplus got scammed. You do not need to pay any damages if you respond immediately to a C&D. I don’t mean this from a legal standpoint, but from a practical one. In order for them to bring this to court and order you to pay damages, they would have to prove intent. The defendant probably doesn’t care enough to pursue this.

Copyright lawyers are always aggressive about C&D’s– this is their bread and butter. They don’t make money in the court system. Their goal is to attempt to scare you into submission using shock and awe tactics from the get-go. It seems to me that webcopyplus took the bait, having no prior experience with legal problems. This is why you ALWAYS go to a lawyer FIRST. You never respond to a C&D prior to getting advice. This was webcopyplus’ first mistake. Responding to the lawyer without representation probably allowed the lawyer to see the fear in your eyes, and he decided he could gouge you for as much money as he did. If you want to run your business paying off every lawyer who sends you a C&D, that’s your choice, but good luck with that– you won’t be in business long.

Well, if you think you can do a good enough job with the photography, then go for it. In fact, you should’ve been doing that all along. But I’m wondering what’s going to happen when you need an image of an obscure subject, model or location. Will you be hopping on a plane to Bali? Probably not. Do you have the lighting skills to match the stock you’ve been buying? If not, then will your client be happy with your images? Probably not.

When you get pulled over for speeding and receive a ticket, is that considered a scam or did you break the law? When you get caught stealing an item from a shop, then have to pay restitution and court fees (and possibly serve time in jail), is that a scam or did you break the law? So when you steal someone else’s creation/work and
RECEIVE money for its use on websites you designed and GOT PAID for, then are caught red-handed and required to pay restitution and legal fees for having BROKEN THE LAW, how is this scam?

It’s the same as if that very photographer broke into Webcopyplus’s office/website and stole some of the copy that they wrote to sell for a client’s use. The photographer posted it on his or her own website to sell, say, books that he was publishing. Webcopyplus’s lawyer discovered this and put the hammer down.

It all boils down to one thing: YOU DON’T STEAL OTHER PEOPLE’S WORK. If you do, it should cost you…in dollars, in reputation, and possibly in jail time.