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Originally posted by VirtuMike
Here's my opinions:
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2. Historically, you sold my content that someone stole from me. When I contacted you about it you told me to take a hike and the only way you would stop selling my content was if I contacted the person selling it through you. After a couple days, you had it pulled. Why? You sold many copies, where's the 2257 on that? Maybe you ought to consider buying it all back before one of your customers gets in trouble. Plus we send out C&D's to anyone we find using it, and I have no trouble DMCA'ing anyone using it that got it from you. I have done it in the past and I will continue to do it in the future.
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OK, I think that I may have figured out what your angle is... You are Michael Kobrin, right?
As I recall (and I have yet to pull all of my notes up on this), you made a purchase of material from Mike Hammer and/or Anthony Coviello, material that had already been out on the market and had been licensed before. The terms of the agreement were a bit of a bone of contention between you and the publisher, and you thought that you then had exclusive rights _period_, and that all previously licensed copies had to be removed from play, whereas the photographers thought that simply taking the title out of new licensing at that point was sufficient for the terms of the agreement.
If it's some other matter, please let me know, but this was NOT a case of me selling "stolen images" in any way, shape or form... it was one of you purchasing images and then disagreeing what the terms were to be.