Copyright Aid

Provided that your account is with PayPal UK Ltd then you have a degree of protection from any court order which the Illinois court might make to seize your assets, assuming that the law firm carry out their threat and pursue the matter to a judgmernt. A UK business or bank is not obliged to comply ...

Hi LauraAshley1 and welcome to the forums. From your description of your artwork, it doesn't sound as if there are any grounds for alleging trade mark infringement. To qualify as infringement the 'mark' (in this case your piece of art) would need to have been used in the course of trade in a way whi...

Hi Cathy, I think you have covered all the issues well. I hope it does the trick. Be prepared for them to come back with a refusal and despite intimating that they will be forced to hand the matter over to their solicitors, in fact things will go quiet for a bit. The aim of this tactic, I suggest, i...

Hi Cathy, Unless the image you used was very specific to the astronomical event you referenced in your blog, then I would be inclined to use any other suitable image licence that you can find on a stock site as the yardstick for the markect value of the comparable licnece. The courts recognise somet...

Hi Cathy and welome to the forums. You are entirely correct that the figure of £510 is both excessive and wholly unreasonable. The actual amount of any damages a court would award is the actual true market value of a licence which you would have bought at the time when you first needed the image. Si...

Thanks Steve

If you look back to page one of this thread I explained the difference between infringement by copying and infringement of moral rights. Both can lead to damages, but the way the damages are calculated in each instance is different. I can't see how any claim against you for copying can get past the ...

Thanks for the update.

Yes while the laws vary from country to country, there are international agreements which govern how copyright protection is enforced between states. Generally the place where a work is first published will determine the term of protection, but obviously in your case that doesn't help as the diaries...

Hi Kendal and welcome to the forums, Since this author was living in London (and irrespective of her actual nationality) the applicable law will be that of the UK. However if you were to publish the diaries while you are in the Netherlands you may also need to, briefly, consider Dutch / EU law, in c...

Hi Steve, They are both welcome improvements. The ethos of the CC system has always been the free sharing of works, and any financial exploitation of the system clearly undermines this philosophy. However given human nature, I'm sure that for many creators, the desire for personal recognition probab...

Thanks for the links. I did think these were probably the sort of doll you were talking about. The only risk in selling photographs of the dolls and clothing for them is where copyright exists, and as I explained previously, this is less likely to be a problem since the dolls and clothing are unlike...

Hi Sajah, Lots of ground to cover here. Copyright. If these dolls can be described as hand-made, then that introduces the possibility that they may be works of artistic craftsmanship. It's by no means automatic, as to qualify, the production process would require some individual artisic input on the...

Hi Steve, You have to do what you think is right for your circumstances. It is precisely because I can't do due diligence into those cicumstances via a public forum, that I cannot advise you on the course you should take. The other problem with a public forum is that there is every chance that the c...

Steve,
As you don't have the money to pay for legal advice and this is an interesting case, try contacting the IP Pro Bono unit: https://www.ipprobono.org.uk/