Jools Devon Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 How do people promote their images after photographing an event? I Photographed the "World Pasty Championships" last weekend Selected images were submitted and available as Live News over the weekend On the Monday I also sent some links out to the winning companies with an Alamy Lightbox, https://www.alamy.com/search/lightbox/4081625.html and direct links the certificate presentations images. I see one of them now have a post on Facebook - but have just used the Alamy Watermarked images! (cheapskates!) https://www.facebook.com/RowesCornishBakers/posts/3122955884401825 So far - no sales form the event :-( For some of these things, I see much more press about the event a few weeks before, promoting it, using last years photos - maybe they will sell next year! Jools Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 They say "courtesy of" you- have you actually given permission? If not it's an infringement. Send them a bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jools Devon Posted March 6, 2020 Author Share Posted March 6, 2020 1 minute ago, spacecadet said: They say "courtesy of" you- have you actually given permission? If not it's an infringement. Send them a bill. No - I sent them an email which said "Alamy Live News Feed - These were posted throughout the day and are available to licence for any editorial and other commercial uses" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) Then they need to pay for a licence- and thanks to the email they know it. That makes the infringement flagrant. You can't eat "courtesy of". Get screenshots now in case they delete them and watch out for any other uses. Edited March 6, 2020 by spacecadet 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewP Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) You could tell them you’d like to eat a free cornish pasty every day for the rest of the year ‘courtesy’ of Rowes Cornish Bakers and see how they respond! Seriously, send screen grabs to Alamy and let them sort it out. Edited March 6, 2020 by AndrewP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 As it's not a "lift" from a legitimate licence, I believe you're free to pursue it yourself- do check though. Alamy will only charge its usual fee but for an infringement you can get a lot more. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 19 hours ago, Jools Devon said: I see one of them now have a post on Facebook Images are on Instagram too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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