Copyright Aid

Statue bar on copyright works differently to contractual law.


Yes - copyright infringement is a tort, not a contract.

tbh - I think you were fortunate if the judge accepted your argument;
The limitation period can be postponed 'until discovery' if there is evidence of deliberate concealment ...

I don’t disagree at all Andy - you worded it more succinctly than I did.

Best,

J

It looks like they use a standard template to frighten people into paying and there are several things wrong with it:

1. The fee they pay the copyright agency to crawl the web is not a result of the cause of action - it's part of their daily cost of doing business, like their utility bills. They ...

I published the image in 2013 on a blog post. The post was updated with some additional copy in 2018, but the image was unchanged. I migrated my blog from a free platform to my own website in late 2020. The post (including the image) remained the same but the URL changed slightly. Would that ...

Work could still be protected depending on the ‘2039 Rule’ which you can read up on here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/copyright-notice-duration-of-copyright-term/copyright-notice-duration-of-copyright-term

Eg: if the author died before 1969 but the work was unpublished as of the end ...

My last contact to them was about a month ago in which I basically said there was nothing to worry about as I bought it fair and square from Alamy and when you buy from them it says you can use the imagine. Today I have received the below but this time from Adam ...

Hi Andy - I'll certainly try and contribute where I can, yes.

While IP Protection is primarily concerned with assisting rights owners enforcing their copyright and recovering fees due, we also make sure infringers are treated fairly - and lawfully - so occasionally we have also assisted people ...

Hi Query and welcome to the forum,

You are right that the limitation period is six years, but that period only begins once the act of infringement has ceased. So if you put the image on your site in 2013 and deleted it before the end of 2018 then the limitation period protects you from being sued ...