Ensuring eSignature Lawfulness for Company Bonus Letter in Canada

How to eSign a document: eSignature lawfulness for Company Bonus Letter in Canada

so you may be an individual who received a letter from a rights holder telling you in summon substance that they've caught you red-handed usually it will include a screenshot from your website or some other evidence a snippet of evidence which demonstrates that you infringed that person's work and legally speaking they're entitled to damages now oftentimes we get asked whether this is a scam whether it's a Shakedown there's also a term out there called copyright trolls but make no mistake If you're receiving this threatening letter and there's evidence in it that you've infringed there's a quite a good possibility that you either will be sued or even worse perhaps you already have been sued over this infringement so we have a recent case that we just settled and the client is actually a media company who is hired by a different Corporation to build them a website very common scenario the media company and the process of building their website Outsource some of the website building to a third party and that third party pulled a copyrighted image and put it up on the website that they were building for their client the initial demand Was Eighteen thousand dollars for this single photographic infringement luckily after extensive negotiations we were able to get a settlement for much much less than the initial demand now of course all these settlements are confidential so I'm not at Liberty to say exactly how much it was but the value that we attorneys can provide to somebody who has been or may be subject to this lawsuit is the ability in most cases to settle these demands for a fraction of what ultimately the individual seeks in the initial letter [Music]