Copyright infringement

Ave Sodalis

Hi guys,
I'm just wondering if anyone has any idea what happens with copyright infringement? There's a club I belong to that keeps using photos without asking the owners for various posters etc. I've warned them over and over that they could be in trouble and after the last time, I thought they got the message. However, they have made a Facebook event and used one of my photos to promote it. Now I don't mind them using my photo at all, but I was never asked so what I've been telling them have gone over their heads. I don't think they consider me as a photographer so don't want to listen. I'm just looking for figures and outcomes of other copyright infringements to tell them that this is what happens when they use a photo without permission because telling them it's wrong isn't working.

Kenny Logins

Send them an invoice?

endacl

Send them an invoice. They'll get the message.

Ave Sodalis

It's not so much my photos I have a problem with them using but using other peoples' photos could get them into trouble. I know they're not asking for other photos because they're not asking for mine. I'm just looking to see how much trouble they can get in, and what sort of consequences they could be looking at if someone wanted to take action against them

Kenny Logins

The invoice will tell them that. They can add it up themselves. Number of photos used x fee.

...but if nobody sends one, they can carry on.

Wabbit Ears

Slightly playing devils advocate but when you're part of a club where everybody is giving up their time for free you have to accept that this 'share and share alike' attitude extends to your (and other members) photos.


I appreciate you saying you don't mind them using your images (so 'you' is not you personally)but I'm imagining the sort of scenario where you approach the media person of the local GAA club who attends meetings, devotes hours a week to the club, probably also coaches, mentors, gives lifts etc that because you took a photo of one of their events that they used, you want money for that. Noone else gets paid. Noone asks for petrol money, but you want to enforce your copyright rights on the club?

Oh, you'd just like to be ASKED if its ok. well that's fine. Sure its not like it actually takes time and work to go around asking everybody for every little bit of permission so they don't get their precious in a twist. Sure the guys that give up their free time to club admin would just LOVE to spend more time chasing club members for permission to use the photos you took at their events.

Ave Sodalis

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

Slightly playing devils advocate but when you're part of a club where everybody is giving up their time for free you have to accept that this 'share and share alike' attitude extends to your (and other members) photos.


I appreciate you saying you don't mind them using your images (so 'you' is not you personally)but I'm imagining the sort of scenario where you approach the media person of the local GAA club who attends meetings, devotes hours a week to the club, probably also coaches, mentors, gives lifts etc that because you took a photo of one of their events that they used, you want money for that. Noone else gets paid. Noone asks for petrol money, but you want to enforce your copyright rights on the club?

Oh, you'd just like to be ASKED if its ok. well that's fine. Sure its not like it actually takes time and work to go around asking everybody for every little bit of permission so they don't get their precious in a twist. Sure the guys that give up their free time to club admin would just LOVE to spend more time chasing club members for permission to use the photos you took at their events.

Hi, I don't want money for my photos, nor to enforce my photos copyright (also, as part of the club, I do all the coaching, admin etc too). The problem is that it's not just my photos they are using. They also using other peoples photos (from separate societies that have nothing to do with the club, taken by people not in the club). As they are not asking permission to use mine, I know that they are not asking permission to use other peoples which can get them into trouble with the other people. I am trying to tell them that but without actually telling them the exact trouble, it's not getting through to them and I don't want the club in trouble. I'm looking to see what trouble exactly that they can get into if they continue. I do not want compensation for myself. It has nothing to do with my photos, I don't mind them using them. The only thing I want to know is where my photos are going and even if I don't, I don't really mind that much. I do however, know that some people do mind.

spookwoman

Doesn't matter if you're in a club or not not one has the right to use your pictures without permission. If the club is at it it what message is it giving out to other clubs and its members or just those that follow, they think ah sure they do it why can't I.