antychimera
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hi,
my brother and his friend satrted an online business by hiring some programer (asian) from rentacoder.com. they told their programmer about the marketing and business plan and show some online reseller's website address. just to give them an idea hwo the website will look like and how things will appear. however they copied the description and image from google but unfrtunately we found out that all the descriptions and images which were copied from ggogle actually represents one single company though the images were common image , not their own. programmers used some code which pick up the best from google.
now that site owner saw that and start to threaten us. he says why we have copied their description , we have copied their image bla bla bla. they even threatened us over phone in voice message option. they used such words that can be taken as crime if we consider it under racism.
however, as we were selling technology related part so there are strong possibilities that the description of a product should match.
as for example "i am selling a 15" black monitor" and they are selling same thing. now we are selling a thing which cant be defined in other words. they complained about us in google and data infringement who looks after copyright thing.
but honestly speaking, when they made the 1st call and complained we shut down our site and started to rebuild so that they dont have anymore complaints as we can see our programmers made a little mistake by copying them. however the thing is we shut down our site and start working on it since the placed teh 1st call to us. trust me they werent using good words. they were using slangs and crazy things. they even threatened us that they will sue us and they will deport us , as they know we are not a US citizen. we just have work permits.
we just launched a week ago and its an LLC, if they sues us we wont be able to hire even a lawyer. what i wanna know is, though i have shut down my site stopped all the things and started to work rebuilding again, can they still sue us?
i am a young man, never had a bad record , just missed this whole copyright thing because if my programmers. they dont know the law of usa very well. but once i saw that i shut down the site at once.
so can anyone suggest me , what to do? they have threatened us twce though we have shut down at the very first time they called and complained (the degree of complain was not in good manner from any point).
i know we had made a mistake but any help will be appreciated.
thanks in advance
my brother and his friend satrted an online business by hiring some programer (asian) from rentacoder.com. they told their programmer about the marketing and business plan and show some online reseller's website address. just to give them an idea hwo the website will look like and how things will appear. however they copied the description and image from google but unfrtunately we found out that all the descriptions and images which were copied from ggogle actually represents one single company though the images were common image , not their own. programmers used some code which pick up the best from google.
now that site owner saw that and start to threaten us. he says why we have copied their description , we have copied their image bla bla bla. they even threatened us over phone in voice message option. they used such words that can be taken as crime if we consider it under racism.
however, as we were selling technology related part so there are strong possibilities that the description of a product should match.
as for example "i am selling a 15" black monitor" and they are selling same thing. now we are selling a thing which cant be defined in other words. they complained about us in google and data infringement who looks after copyright thing.
but honestly speaking, when they made the 1st call and complained we shut down our site and started to rebuild so that they dont have anymore complaints as we can see our programmers made a little mistake by copying them. however the thing is we shut down our site and start working on it since the placed teh 1st call to us. trust me they werent using good words. they were using slangs and crazy things. they even threatened us that they will sue us and they will deport us , as they know we are not a US citizen. we just have work permits.
we just launched a week ago and its an LLC, if they sues us we wont be able to hire even a lawyer. what i wanna know is, though i have shut down my site stopped all the things and started to work rebuilding again, can they still sue us?
i am a young man, never had a bad record , just missed this whole copyright thing because if my programmers. they dont know the law of usa very well. but once i saw that i shut down the site at once.
so can anyone suggest me , what to do? they have threatened us twce though we have shut down at the very first time they called and complained (the degree of complain was not in good manner from any point).
i know we had made a mistake but any help will be appreciated.
thanks in advance