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My photos being sold by news agency

  • 27-04-2017 1:14pm
    #1
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭


    Recently I had some photographs published in a quite a few online news publications. In about 90% of cases, I was contacted before publication and agreed to have the images published for free as I did not personally want to profit from them, but rather asked each outlet to link to a charity that helped me out.

    I've just found the images on an agency site, watermarked, without credit, on sale to news outlets. They do mention the charity in the accompanying notes, but without links to it. The reporter had emailed me asking if she could post them, but did not mention they were being offered for sale.

    What is the best approach on this? I don't want to invoice them, as I said before I'm not interested in profiting, but I also don't want someone else selling them. Is a simple email asking them to remove them a bit naive?


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  • #2
    dtipp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭dtipp


    A quick email seems like the obvious first step.
    Could just be a honest error.
    Reporter looks for permission to use pics; pics then enter some kind of work system where they end up for sale.

    Best case scenario, you send email saying you took and retain ownership of the pics, but allowed them to be use on a one-off basis.
    You didn't agree for the pics to be resold, or retained for reuse.
    And ask that they be deleted.

    Who knows, you may get a positive response.


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