darich
No longer a newbie, moving up!
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2005
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- Near Lanark, Scotland
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- www.darich.co.uk
- Can others edit my Photos
- Photos NOT OK to edit
ok....so it's not strictly speaking the theft since I still have it. It's the unauthorised use of it.
I noticed on Saturday that a website in the UK has one of my images on their front page. After some digging, I found it's also on their Facebook gallery and was added in mid July 2010, meaning they've been using it for almost a year.
I've contacted the company and instructed them to pay for the image now (it's for sale as a RF image on a site that I directed them to). If they pay for it, then everything's fine. I have since found out that typically unauthorised use attracts a 3 x licence fee (Getty charges 5x) although I've not asked for that yet - I've simply asked them to pay for the licence.
There is no doubt it's my image - it's quite distinctive and unusual. Someone else unconnected to me also confirmed it's my image so it's not that difficult.
I have the full size tiff images (38mb) and I took a sequence at the time so I can prove I have a much larger size but is that sufficient for proving proof of ownership and therefore prove this site has breached copyright??
I'm trying to keep ahead of the situation here - what's my next step if they ignore my email or reply saying it's free for them to use (it clearly isn't).
I believe I can start a Money Claim OnLine via the direct.gov.uk site but I've never done that before. I also don't know how my larger images/sequence would help me if I have to go down that route.
I stated I wanted a response within 7 days so by 10th June they should have replied.
Can anyone offer any useful advice on my next step should this site ignore my initial email?
Many thanks
I noticed on Saturday that a website in the UK has one of my images on their front page. After some digging, I found it's also on their Facebook gallery and was added in mid July 2010, meaning they've been using it for almost a year.
I've contacted the company and instructed them to pay for the image now (it's for sale as a RF image on a site that I directed them to). If they pay for it, then everything's fine. I have since found out that typically unauthorised use attracts a 3 x licence fee (Getty charges 5x) although I've not asked for that yet - I've simply asked them to pay for the licence.
There is no doubt it's my image - it's quite distinctive and unusual. Someone else unconnected to me also confirmed it's my image so it's not that difficult.
I have the full size tiff images (38mb) and I took a sequence at the time so I can prove I have a much larger size but is that sufficient for proving proof of ownership and therefore prove this site has breached copyright??
I'm trying to keep ahead of the situation here - what's my next step if they ignore my email or reply saying it's free for them to use (it clearly isn't).
I believe I can start a Money Claim OnLine via the direct.gov.uk site but I've never done that before. I also don't know how my larger images/sequence would help me if I have to go down that route.
I stated I wanted a response within 7 days so by 10th June they should have replied.
Can anyone offer any useful advice on my next step should this site ignore my initial email?
Many thanks