Sally

I think it’s been best part of this month that measures hasn’t been working, however it does not appear to have had any impact on sales. Very annoying but not disastrous.

Ha, thanks for the spot! An April Fools joke, I presume, since the “Yukon dig” is actually in Leith, Edinburgh.

My thanks Bryan, I missed those.

Don’t email the normal contributor team. Email the infringement team infringements@alamy.com who do understand the issue and should sort it for you.

I'm glad to report that the first of these Live News infringements has been reported - and a nice amount too!

Cheers Bryan

Many thanks Bryan.

A pile of Alamy images on this webpage. One of mine, already invoiced, so others should be too, https://www.loveproperty.com/gallerylist/247189/before-the-pilgrims-native-american-homes-and-who-built-them

You have to wait 4 months to report it. Generally, newspaper uses are reported the end of the following month so you ought to have see this reported at the end of January. In my experience, if that doesn’t happen, it is missed and you have to report it yourself after 4 months. Make sure to keep a screenshot or photo of a print use. It’s a tiresome and tedious process to keep on top of things. A spreadsheet is the only way I can keep track of it all.

I totally agree. I’m told that the system is usually reliable. My own experience is that it is totally unreliable as I constantly report images uses that the newspapers haven’t reported. There must be a better way.

I’m pleased to say that this problem appears to have been sorted and I am assured that any unreported Live News uses will be billed at an infringement rate, ie more than would have been the case if they had been reported. So if you have any images used like this that you only got $18 something for, let the infringement team know. I’ve yet to see any previously billed uses corrected, but hopefully that’s it sorted.

Cheers Bryan.

Yes this happens if you keyword in Lightroom. You can also get more than 10 supertags. But if you try to edit them, AIM won’t let you have more than 10.

Cheers Bryan. Interestingly I’m pretty sure that the graphic at the top of the article is also based on one of my images MDTJ71. Not had one used like that before but I presume it also qualifies for payment. Happy New Year to you and thank you for all of your spotting.

Yes, the big issue here is that it relies on the photographer to be alert and spot the print uses as they cannot be searched for online. There may be many more that haven’t been reported, the photographer hasn’t spotted and are never paid for. Alamy loses out more than us since they take their bigger share. I find it incredible that there is not a robust and reliable system for any legitimate photographic uses to be reported, whether Live News or stock. I am regularly reporting newspaper uses of stock images to Alamy that haven’t been reported too. It’s incredibly time consuming and wondering whether it’s really worth doing any more. I had three stock uses in the same article earlier this year in The Times, only one of which was reported. I had to alert Alamy to the other two, which were invoiced 3 months later at the same rates (ie $4/5). So no $18 infringement fee there and I am a few pennies better off. I am aware that other agencies scan papers daily (though they don’t look at the Scottish versions of The Times/Telegraph/Daily Mail etc it seems so not much use to those of us North of the border) but again, it surely shouldn’t be up to others to find these uses, but up to those who use them to report them.