Copyright Aid

Not sure exactly who the copyright holder is. The image listing does not say 'copyright Reuters' or similar.

I would love to win this battle but my time is valuable so if Reuters are the copyright holder I may settle as it is only for the licence fee. If they are not then I might just see what ...

After a flurry of emails I received one with the following line:

This is our final offer of reduction. This offer is not negotiable.

Does this mean that if i do not accept then it will almost certainly be referred to PicRights thugs (sorry legal team)?

The fee is more than I would wish to pay ...

Thanks for this.

PicRights are still trying to claim that the licence should be for commercial not editorial use. My response has been to point out that the blog section of the website is not "Used for advertising, marketing, merchandising, or product endorsement".

The image used was 200 x 200 ...

Just an update.

The smaller claim has been settled but the other claim is being haggled over. PicRights revealed how the Reuters compensation was calculated so I logged in to Reuters and found that the licence should be £164 not £420.

I still need to get to grips with the admin fee. Originally ...

It is obviously not possible to do a reverse image search on every image in a blog so inevitably one falls foul of PicRights.

Yesterday I received two notices of infringement. Both images appeared in blog articles. The first a 1200 x 500 image from AFP which was posted on 9/8/2019. PicRIghts wanted ...