This case was dismissed / closed on October 24th..my bet is that Windstone Buffalo settled and most likely paid something to make it go away..

A couple of items strike me as odd in these cases, based on the complaint and the exhibit, which can both be seen below. Even though the complaint to me, looks rather cheesy and simple minded, it really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things as long as it meets them standards the court sets forth. I’ve looked at and poured over literally hundrds of complaints, but have never seen any as “simple” as this…That aside..

I find it odd that Adlife Marketing states:

“Plaintiff Adlife Marketing and Communications, Co., Inc., is a Rhode Island
company with a principal place of business at 38 Church St., Pawtucket, Rhode Island.”

and that:

Defendant Windstone Buffalo Co. (“Windstone”) is a company with a principal
place of business located at 44229 281st Street, Freeman, South Dakota 57029 and with a
registered agent Nathaniel Jacob Preheim, 44229 281st Street, Freeman, South Dakota 57029.

Yet the lawsuit is filed in the State of Massachusetts, I’m not sure why “venue is proper” I think if it were me, my first line of defense, would be a motion to dismiss for this reason. I’m no lawyer by any means and not sure if this would work or not, unless Adlife Marketing has overwhelming proof that products were actually sold in MA.

The other oddity, is that Adlife really does not offer up any groundwork to the alledged infringement, nor does it offer up any solid proof of infringement, besides one lonely exhibit showing a screen capture of the web page in question.

In my “non-lawyer” capacity, I think it’s safe to say that a screenshot does not offer proof of infringement, it only shows that the image appeared on the page, AND THERE IS A DIFFERENCE!…Take for example the below screen shot of a post I wrote a week or so ago:

This image of grapes, while “appearing” in the page / post is not an infringement ( though I’m sure Joel Albrizio would disagree). This image is hotlinked from an outside source…preparedfoodphotos.com, which is also owned by Adlife Marketing and Joel Albrizio… Courts have deemed that “hotlinking is not infringement. So screenshots are not absolute proof, they would need to offer up more than that alone.

As seen in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Office of the Secretary of State records, we can see who the main players are in the copyright trolling extortion scheme. These folks are surely aware of Joel Albrizio’s scumbag tactics and douche-baggery. I think we even have a letter signed by one these assholes trying to collect on an unproven claim.. It’s nice to see Joel is raising his kid to be a fuck-muppet..yet he has the nerve to suggest to me how to raise my kids.

Joel M. Albrizio

President at Adlife Marketing & Communications Inc. / Marketing Author

Past: Founder/President at Top Supplements Online, President at J.M. Albrizio Inc.

Education: Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Douglas Fleurant
Chief Financial Officer at Adlife Marketing & Communications Co., Inc

Past: Auto Salvage Technologies, Inc, Lady Carol, Inc

Education: Bryant University

Sharon Ferretti

Executive Vice President at Adlife Marketing & Communications Co., Inc.

Past: Ace Surgical supply

Education: Massasoit Community College

Brendon Albrizio

Chief Operating Officer, Adlife Marketing & Communications

Past: Sirculr, C.H. Newton Builders, Inc.

Education:University of Massachusetts Boston

Subject:
AdLife/Joel Albrizio Scam

Message:
Hi,
Thanks a bunch for your post warning people about AdLife and Joel Albrizio. We received a demand letter for $16,000 using the same tactic, and I was uncertain how to handle it, but after reading your post and then contacting iStock photo and sending Adlife the info iStock instructed us to send, Adlife e-mailed us saying we’re all set and the files are now closed.

But I still feel like this is an intentional attempt to defraud people who are too afraid to challenge it by deleting evidence and then demanding the evidence that they *know* cannot be found on the iStock site. Do you know if anyone has contacted the FBI to report him? I think this might deserve a federal criminal investigation for interstate fraud and I was contemplating contacting our local field office.

In any case, thanks again for your post! It was very helpful!

So yet another victim speaks out. Joel has stated previously that “most” letter recipients do not have a valid license. I call bullshit. The majority of the contacts I have made have purchased the images from iStock and do indeed have a license to use the images in questions. It is becoming more clear to me, in my opinion, that Joel Albrizio and Adlife Marketing are wrongly targeting people using fear of a lawsuit to extract money from them, which in my opinion, borders on extortion. I don’t know if contacting the FBI would yield any results, but I’d venture to guess, we’ll know before long.

Again, if you feel you have been wronged and have a legitimate complaint it is completely within your rights to file complaints with whomever you wish, be it the Attorney General, the FBI, the FTC.

Two sources whom shall remain anonymous have stated to me, when they contacted IStock to track down, their download history, that not only was IStock fully aware of Joel Albrizio & Adlife Marketing and Communications and their targeting of “infringers”. Not only are they aware, they have also stated that IStock pulled the Adlife Marketing images and account.
I have reached out to the people at IStock to verify this, but have yet to get a response.

Joel Albrizio stated to me in our first somewhat civilized conversation, that Adlife Marketing did at one point work with Getty and Istock, but the HE pulled his account and images. Unfortunately, at this time I tend to believe the letter recipients in that Istock actually pulled his images and his account. So my theory is as follows.

Adlife Marketing decided to create their own Stock Image site, to hawk prepared food images (albeit at an outrageous price of $999.00 per month) while still working with Istock. ( it remains to be seen if there was a contract between IStock and Adlife Marketing.). I think perhaps IStock caught onto this double-dipping of Adlife Marketing, and took action.

At that point someone at Adlife Marketing (probably not Joel Albrizio, I don’t see him being smart enough, but I see him as being greedy enough) came up with the idea of searching and finding anyone who used the purchased images from istock, and pursued them for infringement, knowing full well, that Adlife Marketing would have no records in there brand new database serving up the newly launched Preparedfoods.com website.

What also remains to be seen is if Adlife Marketing / Joel Albrizio knew before-hand that once the images were removed from Istock, that any download history would also disappear within account holders back-end admin area. If this were the case, it’s clear to me that Adlife Marketing and Joel Albrizio knew full and well they could target people with scary demand letters, and that a certain percentage of those victims would pay up.
Coincidentally, Adlife Marketing and Communications still to this day has images for sale on at least two other stock sites. While it’s not uncommon for photographers to sell their work on multiple sites, it is uncommon and a sleezebag tactic to try to target people who have clearly purchased these images.

Again, I reiterate to those who get a nasty-gram from scumbag Joel Albrizio, do your homework, BEFORE PAYING, BEFORE contacting Adlife Marketing, & BEFORE contacting an attorney.

Joel M. Albrizio, President of Adlife Marketing and Communications claims in a previous comment on this blog that:

 Adlife is a one of a kind company and one I am very proud of.”

It would appear in my opinion, that it certainly is “one of a kind”.

With the glut of stock image sites available on the internet, selling images for as little as $2.00 who in their right mind would pay $999.00 per month for unlimited downloads? And to boot that extra special pricing is only available when you pay annually! I don’t care how great the images may be, I just can’t see anybody or any company, large or small paying out $12,000.00 in a lump sum. Based on this pricing structure I don’t think Joel M. Albrizio really wants your business, but he certainly wants your money! That’s pretty much undisputed with the $8,000.00 demand letter these fuck-muppets send out

And since I’m on the subject, of not wanting business. Adlife Marketing & Communications apparently designed the site for preparedfoodphotos.com, and by looking at a small bit of code, it kind of confirms my theory, that they really don’t want any business.

The above code is basically telling Google and other search engines to not index the site, and also instructing search engines to not “follow” any links..

Why would a company do this?? I always thought that getting good search engines results were good for business, and helped to drive sales. Maybe I’m just drunk and not thinking clearly. Whatever the case Adlife Marketing has succeeded in NOT getting those search results that every other business on the planet strives for..

Being as I’m such a nice guy, and I like to do nice things for people, I’ll gladly put in my 2 cents to get those search engine results for preparedfoodphotos.com.. Adlife Marketing and Communications and President Joel M. Albrizio can thank me later.

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This comes directly from a comment on another post and I thought it deserved its own post. Joel Albrizio seems to think he has the authority and power to squelch free speech, and that people can’t express their opinions and views, just like he doesn’t think people have the right to file complaints with government agencies if they feel they were wronged or shafted…

Funny how he states:

 we welcome your attempts at intervention by any governing body. Adlife will always search for a best practices solution to any business situation.

Yet Joel M. Albrizio screams foul, when someone files a complaint and is outspoken.. No real need to ” search for a best practices solution”, stop being a fucking disgusting sleazeball for a minute and consider how you behave, you just might be pleasantly surprised.

Oh and just for shits and giggles, everyone should know that Texas has some one of the strongest Anti-SLAPP statutes in the nation, right along with Rhode Island and Florida.

If Adlife Marketing and Joel M.Albrizio decide to file anything against our friend and ally Amy in the Great State of Texas, I have a feeling it would not be very difficult to get some heavy duty legal backing from maybe Paul Levy, the Web Bully’s Worst Enemy. Just saying.

Onto the letter and as usual comments always welcomed!

Check out the threatening letter that Joel Albrizio sent to me if I didn’t stop exposing his scheme to everyone in my sphere of influence. What a bully!

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Good Evening Amy,

I had hoped you would take me up on my offer earlier this afternoon to speak by phone. Without that opportunity I will e-mail to you my thoughts.

If you feel Adlife or myself has done something unacceptable in business we welcome your attempts at intervention by any governing body. Adlife will always search for a best practices solution to any business situation.

However, your public description of myself and my company over the last day or so, and in every public vehicle “as you said you could find” you chose to describe constitutes defamatory & damaging statements.

You have gone beyond any reasonable negative description of an unpleasant customer experience and not only taken your descriptions personally to myself and my company but gone further to place labels on myself and my company which are again at the very least defamatory.

Additionally you have made unfounded accusations which are again defamatory, damaging and unnecessary. You describe as fact through pointed accusations what is limited to only your opinion.

Under what I hope is seen as a courteous request we ask that you remove your public statements immediately. In addition we ask until proven professionally to cease all accusations as fact.

Should these statements not be immediately removed Adlife will seek every legal remedy to not only have such public statements removed but seek monetary damages for your threats and public accusations.

Please take me seriously, there will be no second conciliatory request.

-Joel M. Albrizio
Adlife

The following was received by a masked / anonymous sender via text the other day, I’m not an attorney, so don’t take this as any sort of legal advice. If you are entertaining taking a position of employment at Adlife Marketing and Consulting it would be in your best interest to read and understand fully the following document and it’s contents. In my opinion a court would probably not uphold this agreement, as I see it asoverbroad in several aspects, but again I’m not a lawyer, before ever signing such an agreement with any company one is best to have an outside attorney read it over.

I’ll let the readers digest and analyze Joel M. Albrizios’ non compete contract, and decide for themselves, personally I would never sign this..

Important things to note when it comes to these types of agreements are that In order to be considered valid, a non-competition agreement must:

• Be supported by consideration at the time it is signed;
• Protect a legitimate business interest of the employer; and
• Be reasonable in scope, geography, and time.

Valid consideration — the employee must receive something of value in exchange for the promise to refrain from competition. If an employee signs a non-competition agreement prior to beginning employment, the employment itself will be sufficient consideration for the promise not to compete. However, if an employee signs a non-competition agreement after beginning employment, the mere promise of continued employment will not be considered valid consideration for the promise.

Reasonableness is a Key to the Agreement
In deciding whether to enforce a non-competition agreement, the court will balance the need to protect the employer’s legitimate business interests with any burden that enforcement of the agreement would place on the employee. Non-competition agreements must be reasonable in duration and scope. The reasonableness of the duration of the agreement will depend on the specific facts of each case.

The geographical area covered by the agreement must also be reasonable considering the circumstances. This will depend greatly on the services provided by the employee, and the importance of the services to the employer’s business. Generally, courts will not allow a non-competition agreement to prevent an employee from working in a geographical area where the employer does not do business.

Employers have a right to protect their relationships with their customers and their confidential information, but former employees have a right to earn a living.
Source: http://employment.findlaw.com/hiring-process/non-competition-agreements-overview.html

Happy Friday!, and what better way to get your weekend going than announcing that Joel Albrizio copyright troll and greaseball douche-bag and Adlife Marketing & Communications have been served up with a lawsuit. In all fairness I reached out to the attorney who filed this suit and was told “the issue was resolved”.
Joel Albrizio sure likes to threaten people with lawsuits, but apparently he doesn’t like to be on the receiving end. A couple of items worth noting .

• The suit was filed on Nov.4, 2016
• The suit did not appear in PACER until Nov.17th
• Nov. 18th, it was resolved..
  I’m assuming as soon as Joel Albrizio was served or caught wind of this he was quickly making phone calls to make it go away. It’s also my opinion that Joel Albrizio will not be to happy that this is getting reported here…but tough shit, karma is a bitch, and I think there maybe more to come in the future..
  We’ve mentioned here several times different ways of combatting copyright trolls, well here’s another way..This may not be for everyone, but it apparently worked in this case..
  The Plaintiff fired first by not backing down to Joel Albrizios’ demands and filed a lawsuit for a declaratory judgement, thereby putting Adlife Marketing and Communications in an awkward position. They would either have to “settle” ( hich apparently they did) answer the complaint, which would cost them attorney fees, and they may not have won ( probably not in my opinion), or they could have basically ignored it and the judge would have likely ordered a default judgement, which just makes Adlife Marketing look worse.
  I don’t have particulars on how this was resolved, but I’d be willing to bet Joel Albrizio and his scumbag business partners did not collect $8000.00 or $5000.00, they mot likely collected maybe $200.00 at most or maybe even collected a big fat zero to simply makeit go away.

Either way the plaintiff likely has some lawyer fees, and filing fees, but at the end of the day, these fees were surely lower than 5K…. WIN for them, and Adlife Marketing, President Joel Albrizio, Vice President Sharon Ferretti, COO Brendon Albrizio and CFO Douglas Fleurant are the biggest losers….as long as these assholes keep fucking with bulls, they’ll continue to get the horns at some point.

Who doesn’t love Google?!…Right about now I’d say Joel M. Albrizio Presient of Adlife Marketing and Communications, Sharon Ferretti Vice President of Adlife Marketing & Communications, Brendon Albrizio Chief Operating Officer at Adlife Marketing & Communications and Douglas Fleurant CFO at Adlife Marketing, probably do NOT like google.. I’ll let the search results speak for themselves…

Might be high time to shift my focus on the other copyright troll dirtbags, mentioned above to give them a little extra SEO juice…cause I’m nice like that, why should that fuck-tard Joel Albrizio get all of the attention??

Stay tuned more to come soon!

Well if you ask President of Adlife Marketing and Communications Joel M. Albrizio, he might tell you, that these images are by no means “ordinary”, and that setting up and shooting hundreds of images is very costly.. He probably has some high school kid working for minimum wage shooting images, hence they need to take hundreds of shoots to get a few keepers.

Actually in my opinion I don’t think any of those images are worth $8000.00 or anywhere near that amount, hell Adlife Marketing was selling them on Istock Photo for much less, and they continue to hawk the images at CreativeOutlet for $149.00 per collction, with 50 images in each collection, bringing the price per image down to $2.98 EACH…so yeah 8k?? Go home Joel M. Albrizio, you might be drunk..
I’m sure that $8000.00 per image certainly helps pay for that house he owns, but I’ll let you all decide on that..nice digs, no wonder Joel M. Albrizio seems to be such a greedy bastard.

It’s always nice to put a face to a name, sometimes one can get a “feel” with whom they are dealing with..Take for example Adlife Marketing and Communications President Joel M. Albrizio. I knew as soon as I saw that profile picture, that he looked like a complete douche-bag, shiny suit, hair that has been treated with more hair product, than Tammy Faye wears make-up..Hell it probably takes him 3 hrs. to primp in the mirror each day before leaving that 1.8 million dollar home in the gated community on Eagle Drive in Mashpea, MA…. Thats for another post….Sorry I got side-tracked

 ” I became a lawyer to help people and businesses solve problems and thrive. “

Anyway back to Chip Muller, who is he you ask?? Chip Muller is the Attorney whose name appears on every lawsuit that has been filed by Joel M. Albrizio / Adlife Marketing and Communications.

As with most attorneys we see that get involved in coyright trolling, there is that complete laundry list of “legal services” offered, seems he’s “Jack of all trades!”, or is that “Jerk-off of all trades, Masturbator of one???…..Yeah, Yeah I get it, it’s not about doing what’s right, or keeping a high moral standard, its ‘all about getting those clients, dragging garbage through the court system, and getting that money through the door.

Rhode Island Attorney Chip Muller, seems to showcase “Employment Law” as his main gig ( along with the laundry list of other specialties) which I find amusing since Joel M. Albrizio was forced to back wages for overtime to his employess a few years back.
Now to be fair Lawyer Chip Mullen may very well be a nice, smart,decent attorney, and he may not even be aware of the total story of how Joel M. Albrizio behaves himself, by sending out $8000.00 demand letters to innocent infringers, threatening a lawsuits, threatenng to send them to collections, and then sending an “invoice” for something that is a “claim” at best… yeah he might just be a nice guy, but I think he’s just as greedy as Joel M. Albrizio.
Joel M. Albrizio, Presidentof Adlife Marketing and Communications and owner of PreparedFoodPhotos.com is all about grabbing money..plain and simple.
( think mortgage note on a million dollar home).
One can only hope that one of his lawsuit victims did indeed purchase the images, can show proof of this and files a counter-suit.

Once again it amazes me, how many people are now involved in getting me information, I have heard from no less than a dozen people that have had run ins with Joel M. Albrizio and Adlife Marketing and Communications. From letter recipients, to competitors and a bunch of anonymous folks, via email, phone call and cryptic texts, Seems Joel M. Albrizio has quite the reputation in the New England area. This is the latest nugget t arrive in my inbox.

For what it worth the sender of this stated they were able to obtain proof of purchase, which was forwarded to Adlife  Marketing and Joel apprently “closed the file” but still felt it prudent to send a “past due”invoice after the fact!…. Money hungry bastard that he is…naturally I strongly suggested that this person file a complaint with the Rhode Island Attorney General..This asshole doesn’t seem to know when to give it up, and apparently he doesn’t realize I’m like a dog with a bone, and I won’t simply go away, if he so opts to continue to be a douche-bag.

Yes indeed Adlife Marketing and Communications does “value our relationship”….What the fuck is that all about, this asshole sends invoices to people that aren’t even his customers, and of which he or his company have no relationship with..dumbass…

The following was received by a masked / anonymous sender via text the other day, I’m not an attorney, so don’t take this as any sort of legal advice. If you are entertaining taking a position of employment at Adlife Marketing and Consulting it would be in your best interest to read and understand fully the following document and it’s contents. In my opinion a court would probably not uphold this agreement, as I see it asoverbroad in several aspects, but again I’m not a lawyer, before ever signing such an agreement with any company one is best to have an outside attorney read it over.

I’ll let the readers digest and analyze Joel M. Albrizios’ non compete contract, and decide for themselves, personally I would never sign this..

Important things to note when it comes to these types of agreements are that In order to be considered valid, a non-competition agreement must:

• Be supported by consideration at the time it is signed;
• Protect a legitimate business interest of the employer; and
• Be reasonable in scope, geography, and time.

Valid consideration — the employee must receive something of value in exchange for the promise to refrain from competition. If an employee signs a non-competition agreement prior to beginning employment, the employment itself will be sufficient consideration for the promise not to compete. However, if an employee signs a non-competition agreement after beginning employment, the mere promise of continued employment will not be considered valid consideration for the promise.

Reasonableness is a Key to the Agreement
In deciding whether to enforce a non-competition agreement, the court will balance the need to protect the employer’s legitimate business interests with any burden that enforcement of the agreement would place on the employee. Non-competition agreements must be reasonable in duration and scope. The reasonableness of the duration of the agreement will depend on the specific facts of each case.

The geographical area covered by the agreement must also be reasonable considering the circumstances. This will depend greatly on the services provided by the employee, and the importance of the services to the employer’s business. Generally, courts will not allow a non-competition agreement to prevent an employee from working in a geographical area where the employer does not do business.

Employers have a right to protect their relationships with their customers and their confidential information, but former employees have a right to earn a living.
Source: http://employment.findlaw.com/hiring-process/non-competition-agreements-overview.html

Going out in Monday’s mail, my request to the Rhode Island Attorney General for public records and complaints regarding Adlife Marketing and Commuications, Joel M. Albrizio, & Preparedfoodphotos.com. I think it’s only fair to share with the public any and all complaints filed against these sleazeballs. There will also be a request sentto the Massachusetts Attorney General as well. If anyone has filed complaints with other States and would like to share those, feel free to email them to me at admin<AT>copyright-trolls.com. I will redact any personal info and keep any andall submissions anonymous.

Luckily Massachusetts has an available email address in which to send public records requests, which should cut down on time involved in getting back the results. Something tells me there is a reason why Joel M. Albrizio and Adlife Marketing and Communications decided to move their office from Massachusetts to Rhode Island considering that 3 of the four “officers” reside in Massachusetts according to the Articles of Incorporation One has to wonder how many bridges were burned in Massachusetts, afterall Joel M. Albrizio seems to be disliked in many areas, including Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and others.

Karma, Karma, Karma…spend more money on lawyers you piece of slimy shit, you reap what you sow…So nice to see companies standing up to this fucktard and his cohorts Sharon Ferretti, Brendon Albrzio and Douglas Fleurant.

I’m sure Joel M. Albrizios attorney Chip Muller is more than happy to respond and rack up some more hours, but Joel will likely come crawling with his tail between his legs to the plaintiff to arrange some sort of back room deal..One thing I love about lawsuits, they may be settled, but they nevr disappear from public view and scrutiny..

Docket and complaint coming soon to a blog near you..

MyWebGrocer, Inc. v. Adlife Marketing & Communications Co., Inc

Plaintiff: MyWebGrocer, Inc.
Defendant: Adlife Marketing & Communications Co., Inc.
Case Number: 5:2016cv00310
Filed: November 18, 2016
Court: Vermont District Court
Office: Rutland Office
County: Chittenden
Presiding Judge: Geoffrey W. Crawford
Nature of Suit: Copyrights
Cause of Action: 28:1338
Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff