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General Stock Discussion / Image Infringement - Advice Needed
« on: August 28, 2014, 16:24 »
Recently found one of my images used in a printed magazine with a print run of approx 1.3 million copies.
User of the image is a national organisation in the UK requiring paid membership, of which I am a member.
Image is available on several ms sites that I submit to, but had never had an EL licence on any of them.
I emailed the editor asking where the image was obtained from, adding that I was unable to find any licence purchase applicable for a print run of this quantity.
Got a very quick reply from the editor advising that the image was obtained from a microstock site (name supplied but not included here) using a standard monthly subscription, and added that after checking they now realized that the image was not licensed for the size of the print run.
They have apologized and asked me to let them know how much to compensate for the image misuse and to provide an invoice so that they can arrange payment.
The image is relatively simple isolated object that was used inside of the magazine at half page size.
If the correct EL had been purchased when the image was downloaded it would have cost them approx 80 GB Pounds (approx $120).
So the question is what would a reasonable amount to request be?
Don't want to be unreasonable and ask for too much but also don't want to ask for too less.
Any advice appreciated.
User of the image is a national organisation in the UK requiring paid membership, of which I am a member.
Image is available on several ms sites that I submit to, but had never had an EL licence on any of them.
I emailed the editor asking where the image was obtained from, adding that I was unable to find any licence purchase applicable for a print run of this quantity.
Got a very quick reply from the editor advising that the image was obtained from a microstock site (name supplied but not included here) using a standard monthly subscription, and added that after checking they now realized that the image was not licensed for the size of the print run.
They have apologized and asked me to let them know how much to compensate for the image misuse and to provide an invoice so that they can arrange payment.
The image is relatively simple isolated object that was used inside of the magazine at half page size.
If the correct EL had been purchased when the image was downloaded it would have cost them approx 80 GB Pounds (approx $120).
So the question is what would a reasonable amount to request be?
Don't want to be unreasonable and ask for too much but also don't want to ask for too less.
Any advice appreciated.
