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Thank you Baddog, and yes I need to get back to you today.
Let me also state that Steve has left other info out of his letter. He left out that last year we notified them that they used our images on a DVD box cover. we asked them to come to the table to talk about it. then we found another box cover with our image on it. Still no contact. The box covers were from 2001 and predated any sales of those images to Vivid. Also, they used our image in advertisements in Newspapers/magazines again without purchasing them. We attempted last year to settle this matter simply.
Then we discovered that they were giving away our images to webmasters in their affiliate program. They are now stating that they had a verbal agreement with an individual who is no longer at the company. They say he gave them the right to give away the content. We contacted the individual and he denies their claim.
Any company that has purchased content for their webmasters in an affiliate program has bought that content with the license for that purpose. Vivid does not have that license. If they do, let them produce it and post it here.
As long as Steve felt it was necessary to put this information out, he should have put out the rest of the information.
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