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ExtortionLetterInfo.com (ELI) is a privately-owned website that provides information and commentary on Copyright Infringement Settlement Demand Letters. The website is dedicated to reporting information and providing commentary on Copyright Infringement Settlement Demand Letters. The website aims to provide factual information and professional analysis of copyright infringement claims.
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Location
United States, Illinois, Virginia
Employees
11-50
Mentions in press and media 8
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| Nov 3, 2018 | Using ‘Googled’ Images Can Result in License Demands and Legal Threats | Whether it’s for a school project, a funny meme, or a blog, many people use search engines to find fitting images. Some of these are free to use, but in most cases, permission from the creator is required to publish photos in public. The sa... |
| Jan 12, 2017 | Getty's French Office Sends Out Letters To US Websites Demanding They Take Down Anything Linking It To 'Legalized Extortion' | Getty Image’s long history of copyright thuggery can be found all over Techdirt. This litany of uncivil public discourse finally resulted in it being force-fed its own medicine by a plaintiff who demanded $1 billion from the image licensing... |
| Apr 1, 2015 | Georgia Supreme Court: No, Writing Mean Things About Copyright Trolling By Linda Ellis Is Not 'Stalking' | A few years ago, we wrote about a terrible Georgia state court ruling against Matt Chan, the operator of Extortion Letter Info (ELI), a website/forum that has tracked copyright trolling for many years. There had been a number of discussions... |
| Aug 26, 2014 | Copyright Trolling Lawyer Abusing DMCA To Try To Silence Critics | Nearly three years ago, Fight Copyright Trolls had an interesting post about a copyright lawyer named Mike Meier who “flipped sides” from defending people who had been hit with copyright troll demands to becoming something of a troll himsel... |
| Aug 26, 2014 | Anti-Piracy Lawyer Wants Domain Registrars to Silence Critics | Several years ago when suing BitTorrent users was gaining in popularity, lawyers on both sides of the copyright fence saw there was good money to be made by getting involved. On the one hand some lawyers teamed up with piracy monitoring fir... |
| Mar 27, 2013 | Georgia State Court Issues Censorship Order Blocking Free Speech On Anti-Copyright Troll Message Board | The EFF has a blog post about a very troubling ruling in a Georgia state court that effectively orders the censoring of an anti-copyright trolling blog including user comments. The blog in question, ExtortionLetterInfo.com, is run by a guy ... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Is Getty Guilty Of Trademark Infringement For Every Photo It Has That Shows A Trademark? | And here we have yet another case of trademark law gone wrong. We’ve mentioned in the past that the company CAR-FRESHNER is so insanely over aggressive with its trademarks concerning its annoying pine tree-shaped car air fresheners that it ... |
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What has the press written about ExtortionLetterInfo?
Parsers VC has collected 8 articles mentioning ExtortionLetterInfo, among them “Using ‘Googled’ Images Can Result in License Demands and Legal Threats” (Nov 3, 2018) and “Getty's French Office Sends Out Letters To US Websites Demanding They Take Down Anything Linking It To 'Legalized Extortion'” (Jan 12, 2017).
Is ExtortionLetterInfo still active?
Yes, ExtortionLetterInfo is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Feb 21, 2019.