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Web images - Copyright Infringement

Author:

alan bentham

Date:

Friday, 8th Dec 2006 16:18

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We used some general small business images for our website which we sourced from a variety of places that we thought were free.

Today we received a letter from a large firm of solicitors claiming that we have "used the identified images without proper licence and payment" and infringed their clients copyright.

With the letter came an invoice and a Annual Licence Agreement (backed dated to 1st January 2006) for one small image. Cost over £2,500.

A quick search of the web finds similar images costing anything from £99 - £400. This makes the £2,500 charge seems very excessive !

The solicitors letter requests payment in two weeks time.

Please let all free pint members be aware of this and source iamges carefully.

Has anyone had similar experience ? If so what was the outcome?

Yours

Alan

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	Web images - Copyright Infringement
	We used some general small business images for our website which we sourced from a variety of places that we ...

alan bentham

08/12/06 16:18

84175

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	Hi Babara, In your opinion you are being screwed for a grand. Another opinion is the photographers and their legal representatives ...

Chris

22/01/07 13:17

96279

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	"thinking it was copyright free" there is the problem, THINKING is not enough, you have to KNOW someone has specifically ...

Julian

22/01/07 00:11

96116

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	Copyright is frequently used by the unscrupulous for gain rather than protection. However, to avoid anything like this happenning in ...

Derek Gibson

02/02/07 11:04

100331

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	Yes, I infringed the copyright and I shouldn't have done, I'm not arguing about that . But I contend that ...

Barbara Davies

22/01/07 12:53

96274

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	Yes, they are unreasonable, so they are lawyers. :-)

Alfonso Torrejon

23/01/07 01:06

96475

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	I have been in a similar position at work (a not-for-profit organisation), which is ongoing. A few months ago one ...

Barbara Davies

20/01/07 13:44

95753

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	Yes, It has to be software driven as they don't bother even to answer. One of my friends got another ...

Alfonso Torrejon

25/01/07 21:26

97433

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	Yesterday's Guardian technology section has a long article on this. See http://digbig.com/4rdrn Interesting.

Maxine G.

02/02/07 11:06

100338

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	Probably "this" (see http://www.fotolia.co.uk/info/tarif.php) is the reason why Corbis et all are overcharging their fees with Copyright Infringements, because they ...

Alfonso Torrejon

12/02/07 00:13

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	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	As I said some things, such as the lights on the Eiffel Tower, are copyright and you can't sell ...

Julian

16/01/07 20:56

94404

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	If you mean UFW v Corbis seems to be settled out of court. http://digbig.com/4qtww and this is the guy, who consider the ...

Alfonso Torrejon

21/01/07 00:09

95856

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	First point is, something has been stolen, the rights to an image exists separately from the image and you cannot ...

Julian

14/01/07 23:31

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	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	"At press time, Corbis declined to make a statement to the charges. "We generally do not comment on pending litigation. ...

Alfonso Torrejon

15/01/07 22:23

94100

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	As far as I am aware search engines are not an illegal technology, otherwise I suspect google, yahoo etc would ...

Julian

13/01/07 17:27

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	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	Thank you Julian, great answer and helpfull, really. I've never said search engines are illegal (and actually YES, they are having ...

Alfonso Torrejon

14/01/07 01:37

93516

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	Sorry Alfonso - there's no copyright on faces and places. Photographers can take as many photos of the countryside as they ...

david syme

18/01/07 16:51

95141

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	Alfonso, I'm sorry but you are talking tosh. A photographer takes a picture. They may be happy with the picture straight from ...

Chris

13/01/07 14:43

93386

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	Corbis is a huge stock photo library. They imbed information into all their images using steganography which is almost impossible ...

Julian

12/01/07 22:39

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	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	So they are using an "illegal" system to trace the photo (I am sure you won't be happy to have ...

Alfonso Torrejon

13/01/07 02:01

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	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	I am at the same position as you, with a same amount requested from Baker & Mackenzie for their customer ...

Alfonso Torrejon

12/01/07 21:08

93153

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	Deliberately taking someone elses intellectual property rights and using it for your own gain is theft. Abuse of any copyright of ...

Chris

11/01/07 22:26

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	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	I assume you are meaning all those misguided sentiments where just about everybody says 'stealing is wrong', except those doing ...

Julian

11/01/07 21:54

92886

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	I think there is some confusion here, it is the right to use the image for commercial purposes that has ...

Julian

06/01/07 22:14

91348

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	I'm a photographer and web designer. This is standard practice for use of unlicensed images and can be quite lucrative ...

L Glass

04/01/07 20:50

90782

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	97(1) I see no mention of any claim for damages in the OP., merely the licensing cost for a period ...

Julian

31/12/06 19:28

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	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	A recent leading case on s97 damages is: NOTTINGHAMSHIRE HEALTHCARE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE TRUST v NEWS GROUP NEWSPAPERS LTD (2002) [2002] EWHC ...

Lari Law

01/01/07 10:41

89847

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	Getty Images are clamping down on illegal usage of their images. They're basically sending out thousands upon thousands of threatening ...

carol gibson

30/12/06 01:27

89319

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	See the relevant part of the CD&P Act below: 97.—(1) Where in an action for infringement of copyright it is shown ...

Lari Law

31/12/06 18:18

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	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	Whoops! It's difficult to comment on this specifically without knowing more about the "small business images" and the context in ...

Lari Law

23/12/06 17:49

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	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	I've read your response with interest. We are currently being pursued for £1350 by Getty Images for an image on ...

andrew mount

13/02/07 19:59

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	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	The problem here is that an image has been stolen. All photographs are copyright the instant they are taken. The ...

Julian

22/12/06 13:13

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	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	Important clarification here - copyright infringement is illegal and so on, but it is not stealing. If I steal ...

John

05/01/07 11:04

90959

	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	well said John, I recall the misguided 'sentiments' generated, when this issue was last discussed.

sean delay

10/01/07 15:28

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	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	Fair Dealing - that applies to research, criticism, educational use, libraries and museums, accidental capture in another photograph, court evidence. ...

Julian

25/12/06 00:22

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	Re: Web images - Copyright Infringement
	How do you know that the images belong to their client? Have they proved that? Why Jan 1st 2006, and ...

Phil Bradley

09/12/06 15:53

84456

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