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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Science Photo Library
« on: May 15, 2015, 12:42:41 PM »
Robert, Greg, Thanks for your replies.

It really annoys me that these people can get away with sending letters like this to people like me who are trying to get on with running our businesses. We have better things to be spending our time on.

I'm really grateful to you for taking the time to reply. We'll do what you suggest and see what happens.

Tim

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UK Getty Images Letter Forum / Science Photo Library
« on: May 14, 2015, 02:13:22 AM »
Hi

We've received a letter from the science photo library claiming that we owe them ÂŁ500 for using one of their images on our website. They are saying that this is copyright infringement and entitles them to seek compensation for infringing uses.

The image in question is found on Wikicommons here.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_higgs_chalkboard.jpg

where it says:

"This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.    
    You are free:
        to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
        to remix – to adapt the work
    Under the following conditions:
        attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
        share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one".

We also carried out further searches to see if the image might be subject to copyright. A search on “Peter Higgs image”  finds various images including the one in question which is in use on the University of Edinburgh site: http://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/particle-physics-experiment/news.html. There is nothing on this page to suggest that the image may be subject to copyright.

Our feeling is that we took reasonable steps to check that we could use the image and had no way of knowing that the image might be subject to copyright.

Can anyone advise me where we stand on this one?

thanks
Tim Ault


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