Bryn Law Group

I'm unfortunately going through a similar experience as mentioned by Mihai - this law firm has nothing better to do than to email time-wasting, threatening letters to website owners who have legally published RF images from Dreamstime. Jason Fischer and his team should first devote their time and resources to better discovery calls with their client (Dreamstime) to make sure they fully understand which partners have authorized access to what images, and how they have been used on the internet, before engaging in such activity. It might also be a better use of Dreamstime' budget.

This firm currently runs a campaign on behalf of Dreamstime.com, a stock photography company and website, chasing site owners who have images published on their sites, images from the Dreamstime collection, and claiming use of images offered for license through Dreamstime site without a license. And asking you to buy a license or remove the image, with a threat that failure to do so may result in legal action for infringement of copyrights, for which the copyright owner may be entitled to recover up to US$150,000 in statutory damages, along with attorneys’ fees. And I, site owner, knowing that I'm all right, I have to spend precious time not only to get that email out of Spam, but also check the case and answer to them and prove that I do have a license to use the image, purchased from another stock photography website, so they can close the case. When they could easily run the campaign only for images offered Exclusively by Depositphotos so they could invest their resources into real cases. Who pays my time used for checking, writing and proving they're wrong?