Copyright Aid

If the alleged infringement took place on publication - in my case 2015 - why are they trying to charge me a fee quoted on their current 2023 rate card? This would be like a builder doing some work on your house in 2015 but not invoicing you until 2025 and charging you his 2025 hourly rate.

Hi Snapperman,

thanks for this info - you wrote that there ate typically 250 -300 claims a year across the country, mostly by photographers and artists and rising.

What I'm interested in is how many claims are there from companies that chase copyright infringements on behalf of photographers ...

I have one other small question – the picture on the PA site that they say i should have paid to use is in portrait mode. The picture I used is in landscape mode - could it be argued that they are 'different' pictures and they don't have copyright over the landscape version so I couldn't have ...

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your reply, that's very helpful, I have taken the image down and (if I'm doing things right) deleted it from my library too.

With regard to my second point which wasn't clear, I think you have put my mind at rest there too. When I hear the word "court" i think of losing a case ...

i was wondering if there was any update on this as I'm going through the same process with PA Media.

I have a couple of follow-up questions though.

1. I have not taken the image in question down as it was published a decade ago so I think a copyright infringement claim might be too late anyway ...