This is one important lesson that every person like you should know in sharing images (especially when you buy Twitter followers). It seems to me that there’s a potential danger when it comes to copyright infringement (even if its unintentional or accident).

No matter if it’s an article, image, music or video file that was stolen, copied and shared it to your subscribers (the ones you buy Twitter followers), you are still liable for publishing them on your website or sharing it into various sources without having licenses or permissions from the rightful holder. In this article, I’m going to discuss why we are not allowed to share copyright images to the ones you buy Twitter followers?

Sharing is caring, but not this one….

Some of you guys may don’t know why they are doing this, especially if you already buy Twitter followers. Let me tell you guys about my friend’s experience about this. Earlier last year, my friend decided to buy Twitter followers from me. Due to my experience and credibility, he likes me to do all the work for him. After he buy Twitter followers and are totally generated, he is starting to share something that he likes. Usually he gathers random images from Google Images, pasting it on his blog and was unaware of the copyrights yet. I understood that not all images there are free, as some are copyright-protected. Why is it that Google is displaying these copyrighted images anyway?  To let us copy and share it to our blog? Oh well, this really happened to him before December and it really scared him a bit.

Scared him a bit? Huh?

On October of 2011, he received a mailbox letter from the legal department of Getty Images, claiming that he shared their images without authorization. They also claimed that one of his images he pasted was theirs, and they demanded an invoice worth $1,000. It simply means that the money he spent to buy Twitter followers really cost him this scare tactic moment. He can’t afford to pay that big sum of money after he buy Twitter followers months ago. What he did on that time was searching like hell about the Getty Images Extortion Letter. He said that Getty Images should have sent him a Cease and Desist letter first before sending this kind of letter with a $1,000 invoice.

OMG! When he finds some sources claiming that Getty Images is nothing but scumbags or copyright trolls trying to bully him with this. So he decided to ignore it and never heard from them again after hours and hours of reading other sources. Many people advice who experienced like him advice that he must ignore that letter and take down his image immediately. This is a lesson learned for him after he buy Twitter followers for his account. You must not do this if you buy Twitter followers, because maybe one of them (who can be possibly the owners of the image you shared) may come after you. It’s some kind of scare tactic, but don’t end up getting bullied by them for demanding payment. They don’t even own those images, as most rightful holders claimed that they just sell those images without their authorization.

I hope sooner or later, Getty Images will be boycotted and disappear for good!