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I discovered a website (a turkish website) had one of my images in december, i took screenshots etc and emailed them asking for removal, and as they'd had it some time, a small fee. no reply and life got in the way, till this week when i was reminded by a conversation, so i dug deeper, the website is a large USA company which has local language sites, hence the turkish edition. I skyped USA and they were helpful, info was passed to USA editor in chief etc, and i sent him original email from Dec and he got back to me to say the turkish site had taken it from another site and didn't realise these werent for editiorial (aka free use) and removed the images. so far so good. however i email and thanked him for chasing turkey but still felt annoyed that ignorance wasnt a defence and a publisher should know better etc and referred him back to the original email where i asked for a small fee (low 100$ equiv). and told him that even though im UK based, i had registered with US CR office a good year or so before they used my image. to which he said he noted this and passed to their in house lawyer. my question and worry is, with this being cross border, are they likely to laugh and run off, or do i genuinely have a case given i have it registered in their country (even though im uk). the company is large (with other recent acquisitions of local sites to blend into theirs, some 2 dozen sites i think). and also how could i do this, as obviously im not in a position to go to a US court given location etc and i was fair with a genuine non gouging price based on the image and its use etc. i also have the same image used in italy, to which they have said no we won't pay, again a large sports based newspaper / sports website. have i any recourse here, they got the same email as the USA company as i found them in days of each other, although the italian site has had it longer, before they removed. TIA Dan

Check this out! https://www.diyphotography.net/internet-entrepreneur-shocked-copyright-owner-sued-stealing-work/ And he feels hard done by! Posted by Rob Cook

This makes interesting reading https://www.whatech.com/market-research/consumer/282849-new-report-examines-the-still-images-market-to-grow-at-7-76-cagr-to-2021

Found in the Guardian 28-2-17 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/28/where-female-travel-writers-gone-sara-wheeler Photograph of Mary Kingley's expedition on the Ogowe river in 1895. Photographer: Granger Historical Picture Archive. http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-mary-h-kingsley-1862-1900-nenglish-traveler-and-ethnologist-photographed-95407059.html

Found in the Sun, Xmas Crisis https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2490973/sex-is-off-the-table-and-you-no-longer-look-each-other-in-the-eye-six-signs-you-could-be-heading-for-a-new-year-break-up/ Photograph of a hostile couple. Photographer: Image Source http://www.alamy.com/image-details-popup.asp?imageid={8C78C4FD-7BB6-436B-AD77-53187E2ED0E0} Photo of a young lady using a mobile phone. Photographer: Juice Images http://www.alamy.com/image-details-popup.asp?imageid={4D9CFABB-1560-4862-ADF6-F925D0A6F9C8} Picture of a young couple. Photographer: Mediablitzimages http://www.alamy.com/image-details-popup.asp?imageid={BB21AEA6-2C52-4A3F-8A1A-58BB2949BCED}

Just spotted in the credits of the Grand Tour, Alamy listed as a supplier, dunno what the picture was, but cool all the same PS The show was great, better than any old Top Gear

This image of ecstasy tablets embossed with a love heart was taken by David Allan. The image was found in a Guardian article about MDMA. The piece written by Suzi Gage explains the short term effects, long term effects and myths about MDMA http://www.alamy.com/image-details-popup.asp?imageid={211E4AA7-E74F-413C-8652-A1E452DD4040} https://www.theguardian.com/science/sifting-the-evidence/2016/jun/30/say-why-to-drugs-mdma-ecstasy

Photograph used the the Guardian Newspaper on 1st of June 2016 by Kumar Sriskandan http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/01/statins-breast-cancer-research-treatment-cholesterol-oestrogen

This has been on the cards for a while How long before there is an 8k version in a phone? Why would you shoot stills? Sports, Weddings, PR, Press, Portraits etc etc will all be frame grabs before long, and lots of stills uses will be replaced with short clips. Then the deskilling of the profession will be complete!

Article about the sale of the Peroni beer company appearing in the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/29/ab-inbev-plans-to-sell-peroni-and-grolsch-takeover-sabmiller-eu-competition-regulators Contains a photograph taken by Edward Simons

Photographer pictureproject http://intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/01/i-heart-my-city-sandras-lisbon/

Photographer David Mark http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/11777563/Ash-dieback-threatens-to-ravage-Britains-landscape.html

Photographer Vincent O'Byrne http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/30/michael-gove-scotland-prison-closure

All change for the new year, looks good, can anyone figure out how you now do a contributor search? So its displays all images by a contributor regardless of keyword?

Anyone seen this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28331300 Anyone like to predict the percentage of the monthly subscription, that a photographer will get per image per book rented?

Drone Photography competition results, some really cool photographs http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28262942

Check this out http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/amazon/10820216/Amazon-patents-taking-photos-against-white-backgrounds.html and why didn't I think of doing that!

Photographer Gady Cojocar http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/apr/01/stap-cells-research-paper-on-stem-cell-breakthrough-was-partly-falsified

I get a blank page when I go to Summary of items sold. Anyone else?

This is worth a look http://www.copyrighthub.co.uk Might be a good place to point people who've nicked images and use the defense that they found them on Google http://www.copyrighthub.co.uk/get-permission/images

Just found a couple of my alamy Photographs on these sites pics5.this-pic.com picsbox.biz They appear to be scavenged from various Newspapers and Blogs, judging by some of the spelling, its based outside the uk, Seems to be acting a free resource for pictures

When I made my first sale! Nearly 12,000 images and several thousand sales later, We're still going strong! This was my first sale Country: Worldwide Usage: Non-Editorial Electronic and web uses Media: Web - editorial Industry sector: Non Profit/ Education Sub-Industry: School/College Placement: Secondary screen Image Size: up to 1/4 screen Start: 20 June 2003 End: 20 July 2003 $ 99.70 While that was a nice way to start, what really got my attention was my 5th sale a few weeks later Country: United States Usage: Consumer goods Media: Packaging - boxes and containers Industry sector: Cars/Commercial Vehicles Sub-Industry: Car repairs/garages & parts Print run: up to 1 million Placement: Front Image Size: 1/4 area Start: 18 September 2003 End: 18 September 2006 $ 1544.78 Which came in very handy as I was travelling around the states chewing through cash at the time! Things have changed dramatically since then, but Thanks to all at Alamy for finding customers for my images and keep up the good work

I've spotted a few alamy images recently in the sun and on their website (including one of mine, it'll be interesting to see the fee for that one). One interesting thing is that if you right click the image the normal options are disabled (save as etc etc), instead of getting the normal options it reads Copyright 2012 News Group Newspapers Ltd and/or its licensors. No use without permission. Contact enquiries@nisyndication.com Which hopefully might stop the story being ripped off and appearing all over the shop on blogs etc etc, I'd be interested to know if the article is legally licensed by another website, how the fees to filter down, or if the price they paid includes the right to sell it on as part of the article. Anyone had a Sun sale show up yet, how was the License worded?