To say that photo warehouse giant Getty Images just got a taste of its own medicine would be an understatement. In a 58-page decision issued on Jan. 14, Southern District on New York Judge Alison Nathan ruled that Getty, Agence France Presse (AFP), and The Washington Post infringed Morel’s copyrights by disseminating photos he took …
Tag Archive: Getty Images
Aug 28 2012
Getty Images Pays $100K to Settle Car-Freshener Suit
Last month, stock photo giant Getty Images paid $100,000 to Car-Freshener Corp., makers of those ubiquitous tree-shaped air fresheners. Getty Images had several stock photos for license and sale in their catalog that included the famous trademarked fresheners. The federal lawsuit was filed in November 2009 and was reported on in this blog in October …
Apr 23 2012
NY Court Rules Calling Someone “Extortionist” Is Not Defamatory
The then Mayor of the Village of Freeport was vindicated by the Second Department (a NY Appeals court covering Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Nassau, Suffolk, and parts of Upstate NY), for remarks he made in a public election debate during which he called the plaintiff, a commercial real estate developer, “an extortionist” who was “trying …
Oct 04 2011
Makers of Pine-Tree Deodorizers Allowed to Proceed With Lawsuit Against Getty Images
Getty Images, the world’s largest licensor of digital images, got a taste of its own medicine last week, when Federal District Court Judge Glenn Suddaby, of the Northern District of New York, denied Getty’s motion to dismiss a claim of trademark infringement brought against the company by Car-Freshener, Inc., the company that brings you those …
Jul 12 2010
NY Court Deals Huge Blow to Digital Image Companies by Invalidating Registration Method
In a decision that could have far-reaching implications for the licensors of digital images, Federal Judge Loretta Preska, the Chief Judge for the Southern District of New York, declared as improper and unenforceable the standard method for registering images by digital image warehouses like Corbis and Masterfile (the biggest of them Getty Images, does not …