Chased by PicRights for copyright violation
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2021 3:36 pm
Hi, our group's website received an email from "PicRights on behalf of Reuters News & Media Inc" identifying copyright material on our website and requiring licence payment.
We've remove the single tiny image from the site, and can't deny that it may well be their copyright.
However they're claiming £225 as licence fee for having used this image, which seems disproportionate.
Does anyone have experience of dealing with PicRights? Are they a Rottweiler who will stop at nothing or are they just fishing and won't consider the fee worth going to court over?
One of our members found this, a discussion of a similar situation, in which the proposed action was to make a counter-offer to the payment:
https://copyrightaid.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2783
Thanks,
Oli,
Chair, RFVM
We've remove the single tiny image from the site, and can't deny that it may well be their copyright.
However they're claiming £225 as licence fee for having used this image, which seems disproportionate.
Does anyone have experience of dealing with PicRights? Are they a Rottweiler who will stop at nothing or are they just fishing and won't consider the fee worth going to court over?
One of our members found this, a discussion of a similar situation, in which the proposed action was to make a counter-offer to the payment:
https://copyrightaid.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2783
Thanks,
Oli,
Chair, RFVM