He probably thinks you are inexperienced in this area and hopes you are ignorant to the law. Of course he does not realized you have dealt with much much worse than this.
Well no, lets be fair. I see a lot of misinformation.
People seem to think that copyright doesn't exist until it's filed for registration, like a patent or trademark. There's a reason why the US Copyright Office (
USCO), a department of the Library of Congress that handles registration, is different from the US Patent and Trademark Office (
USPTO), a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, which applies rigorous evaluation of applicants. This also has to do with how much protection each is given. Trademarks and Patents are hard to get and offer more protection, while Copyrights are implicit and offer much less protection. Patents especially are so strong that when leaked patent details get published on Wikipedia, they have to ban everyone involved and issue page locks that can't be overturned by anything other than Wikimedia Corporate.
This guy is a genuine legal professional who is a partner at an IP law firm, and
breathtakingly Jewish.
Is it a scare tactic? Chicken? Probably. I don't doubt he will register his copyrights, as he is entitled to do, and submit a DMCA, as he is entitled to do when he in good faith suspects infringement. Well emspex is not going to pick up that check and dox herself to fight a legal battle over some pictures. Will I delete them? We'll see.