Copyright Aid

Thanks Habbers
Hi Andy -final update on this: almost a year on and I haven't heard a peep from them. Thanks for your help, what a fantastic service you give, it was so helpful and reassuring at a stressful time. I know this is a free resource, but if you let me know your favourite charity I'll ...

Hi Andy

Just a quick update on this -not a peep heard from them since. I'll update the forum if I get anything else from them, but hopefully has gone away.

Cheers

Habbers

Hi Andy

Thanks all very helpful. I replied and made an offer to include a £25 admin. fee. Inevitably this was rejected, their correspondence including the following blurb:
Please note that in the IPEC small claims track, our client can claim more that just the license fee if they chose to initiate ...

Great, thanks Andy. So broadly do the same sort of guidelines apply in Dutch courts for copyright issues, i.e. compensation for loss of licence fee for copyright owner (i.e. only the usage fee missed out on) or based on profits made, not both, and no punitive or other damages assuming no aggravating ...

Hi Andy

I asked for a breakdown of costs and the following is an extract of their response:

The client in question here is ‘Visions Pictures’ who are registered in the Netherlands and as such, they have two options or venues to enforce their rights:

- the option under Dutch law and before the ...

Thanks Andy., I'll keep you posted.

Hi Andy -they have now replied and provided a link to the image library, so my search wasn't specific enough and the image appears on their website. It is watermarked so wherever the image was picked up presumably they either had a legitimate image or had removed the watermark. I guess it's not ...

Hi Andy

Like many others on this forum I've received an email from Vision Rights Group who claim to be instructed by a company call Visions Video and Photography which appears to be an image library based in Holland, accompanied by a signed letter from the latter who are purporting to be the ...