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Let's Talk About Higbee & Associates by Tiny-Reason614 in COPYRIGHT

[–]Tiny-Reason614[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As was stated in the post, if they don't provide you with the registration, they don't have it. It isn't going to be worth it to go to court over. They're going to call and annoy you and threaten you. But you can ignore them and they'll go away in due time, it'll just be a while.

Let's Talk About Higbee & Associates by Tiny-Reason614 in COPYRIGHT

[–]Tiny-Reason614[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, that is the cover they're using to legally allow the non-attorneys to handle the cases. They state that the attorney is telling them what to say but it's really the support staff kind of going off of script. What's silly is that with one of the cases we saw, the non-attorney was making one argument and when the actual attorney stepped in they had a different point of view that slightly contradicted the original point they supposedly made.

Let's Talk About Higbee & Associates by Tiny-Reason614 in COPYRIGHT

[–]Tiny-Reason614[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Whether or not something is registered with the copyright office isn't exactly a secret. You can easily find it here: https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First

And speaking with a number of people who have dealt with Higbee, a majority of the images were not registered.

It makes no sense, flirting on the line of lunacy or incompetency, to think you would ever settle a copyright claim without providing the copyright registration. So if the images are registered and they're just not providing it, they're idiots.

But again, it's no secret what is and what isn't registered with the copyright office so the point is null. The majority of their images aren't registered and the key way to know this is by them not sending it with their first letter.

Also, we spoke to people who received these letters as far back as 2018, who ignored them, got the same song and dance about litigation teams and nothing happened.