UPDATE-Copyright Infringement Again! – Groove Magazine Germany
Well, well, well……
It’s like a massage with a happy ending, I got what I wanted but I feel a bit dirty having got there ;-)
To cut a LONG story as short as possible.
In September last year I wrote a post Copyright Infringement Again! – Groove Magazine Germany about some photos of mine being used without permission in a German Techno magazine.
So, after many harsh words – including a fun little incident in Berlin where word got back to the ‘gentleman’ in question that I’d said I was going to break his nose if I saw him :-) an offensively small offer of payment from the new editor and my basically telling them to fuck off…..
Ta-da!!! I got paid!
Only my usual rate for the pictures and nothing for the copyright infringement, but payment none the less.
The moral???
Don’t be a scaredy cat when it comes to asserting yourself, especially when you are 100% in the right.
And, update your blog to give the thieving b%$tards what tiny credit they deserve for paying up.
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Persistence pays off. Tonight we’ll drink the proceeds!
We will not! (they are already spent for one thing)
You are one of the ones always telling me to ‘tone it down’ if I’d listened to you I never would have got my money!!!
;-)