It has been a week since Coytrack responded. This is why there have been no updates on my timeline with Copytrack and Copytrack/WENN Rights International Ltd. I just wanted to create a post to outline I am still updating events in relation to my experience with Copytrack.
This is the last email they sent on January 21, 2024. This is a second reminder to respond to their last email. Where they claimed to have provided enough proof of Wenn’s ownership. Which was a snapshot of the image and that their client owned it. Nowhere did they show where I might have taken it from or any other details. Never mind I presented evidence of it being fair use and not theirs. Since they do not represent me, I have to meet a much higher standard than their client did, claiming this image twice.
Dear Sir / Madam,
You did not contact us in order to clarify the situation regarding the claim 4*redacted*.
We are still waiting to receive proof of your license or payment in order to close this claim and compensate our client for the copyright infringement.
Visit us at https://portal.copytrack.com/ to follow our requests.
Best regards,
Legal Department
My response:
“Provide proof of ownership of the image,”
That was the only response I sent in regard to the second claim over the same image, which led to its being shut down. This is why I believe in putting the proof of ownership back on Copytrack.
Never mind, I had provided proof on the first claim that it was under fair use, and their client is not the owner of a screenshot. WENN Rights International Ltd is a self-proclaimed “international pool of paparazzi photographers.”. The image they made two claims against has nothing to do with what they sell.
Likely reasons why I have not heard back from Copytrack GmbH:
- My response is still in the queue to be responded to. The first time they responded, even though it was at best a copy-and-paste response, was 6 days. It took 7 days to get a response from a person (maybe).
- They decided to close the case without notification.
- They decided not to respond to me and just forward to the next phase, possibly a collections service. Where I might be screened out before being sent off to a lawyer.
- WENN Rights International Ltd finally contacted them, telling them to close the cases.
- They noticed that I used my Hosting-Reviews-Exposed.com Twitter account to post my first experience and timeline posts. (or) They see this blog in search engine results in relation to them. What does that mean if they did see my content related to them? I have no idea.
The deadline to pay is January 31st, so I wonder if I will receive a reminder before or after that date to pay or provide proof.
I had held off responding the first two times because I debated on seeing if I got a reduced bill. I think that will happen after the deadline they set. But, I decided to respond to their last response as I kind of want to get this over. I have found some experiences that outweighed what happens when they make it all the way to court. I am sure I will find more. I wanted to try to wrap up my own experience to focus on fixing ad and performance issues with my sites. Then, I hope to take a more casual breakdown of everything I have found in regard to Copytrack.com while I dig deeper into the false claims made by Copytrack. I am starting to see that Wenn is not the only client with a frequent history of false claims under Copytrack.
I might hire someone to help find more false claims, validate, and document.
I have also found Copytrack claim experiences where they claim to pay, but… something is off. I might explore those at a later date. Normally, when people understand they have committed copyright theft, they are generally not public about it. Most who do share their experiences assume they can right-click and copy an image for whatever. In most cases, they share this in forums like Reddit and learn the hard way about copyright. But the willingness to admit they knew beforehand is not the part that seems off to me. It is the tone, and they are often written under the assumption that whoever found them by search engine results is also a copyright violator. They tell you to try to negotiate a lower fee or pay, some to remove the image, but still pay.
Just my scattered thoughts on why I think there has been no response from Copytrack GmbH. More updates as they come in.
For the complete timeline of my experience with Copytrack/WENN Rights International Ltd, Click here
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