Copyright Aid

That did make me laugh to be honest - 'the next couple of years' bit took my threat levels right down, as it certainly does nothing to give a sense of urgency!

I gave the following response... Good afternoon Adam, I am not willing to agree to your inflated demands. I have made a beyond reasonable offer to you which I hope you will agree to. Additionally, I hope you can appreciate that all I must go by with these interactions, are emails directed to me ...

Interestingly, I too have now been introduced to Adam, see below: ----------------------------------------------- "Hello, I've recently joined the team to try and resolve some of the unsettled cases. After reviewing your case and as a gesture of goodwill to resolve this amicably, PA Media Group will ...

I have received another email from them this week, after goind back and forth for a long while and making numerous settlement offers. Sounds like they are trying to put the scarers on me - but I don't intend on paying the £1500 they are demanding. Likewise I will await to see if they take action. I ...

No not yet. The latest responses are below: (would be interested in AndyJ thoughts on this! ---------------------------- Your contention that you should simply have to pay a fee equivalent to the fee that you possibly could have paid for a valid licence before committing copyright infringement is ...

Would the following reply be reasonable? "Your stated costs for commercial licence are vastly different from your quoted editorial cost – please can you advise why these values differ so markedly? This does not reflect true market value, and it is my opinion that the IPEC view may agree with this. ...

Hi Andy - I would be grateful to get your opinion of the latest correspondence that I have had on this: After your last useful message, I responded with the following: "Thank you for your response. There are a few points I would like to address with regard to your correspondence: - For what reason ...

Thank you so much for your reply - It is really useful to avoid feeling intimidated by the jargon they respond with. Gives me a bit more clarity about how to proceed with this issue to find a fair resolution.

Many thanks once again.

Hi Andy, Me again! - I just wanted to forward the last couple of correspondence between myself and PA, to get your opinion and whether I need to get legal help....or pay? Good afternoon, From Me: Thank you for your response to my email from 6 weeks ago on March 19th. I would appreciate it, for my ...

Hi Andy,

The use of the image was alongside a testimonial from the boxer regarding my sport injury clinic. It wasn't a blog.

That is why I think it may be classed as commercial?

AndyJ - I would value your expertise on some extra info which may influence this case. The image that I had used is an image of a boxer next to a testimonial on my website. So I believe this would count as commercial use? I have emailed Alamy to see what their cost would be to use in this manner ...

Thank you for your input - that is extremely interesting and helpful. My reply to them was to say that even if I follow the link that they provided in their email, and locate the image that I used, their own website directs me to Alamy to purchase the licence....so even through that route I cannot ...

update: After a few weeks of hearing nohing, I have just received the following reply: Thank you for your email. "The detected image is under PA copyright and is available to license via the Alamy platform, but it remains under PA copyright. To reiterate, Alamy is not the owner of the detected image ...

Any up date on this?

Thanks Andy - I thought that may be the case, but wanted to check.

Thank you for taking the time to reply