I Got a Letter from Higbee and Associates. Now What?
You opened an envelope, or more likely an email, and saw a law firm name you did not recognize demanding money for an image on your website.
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The Real Reason Wire Services Send Demand Letters Instead of Takedown Notices
The first question most publishers ask when they get a copyright demand letter is this: why did they not just ask me to take it down?
What Is Reverse Image Search and Why Should Every Publisher Care
A reverse image search takes a picture and finds other places that picture appears on the web. That is the whole technology. What is complicated is what happens when you do not use it.
How Digital Agencies Protect Clients from Image Copyright Claims
If you manage WordPress sites for clients, you have probably already thought about this. One of your clients gets a copyright demand letter over an image their staff uploaded.
The Audit Log Your Publisher Doesn’t Know They Need
When a copyright demand letter arrives, the first question is always the same: where did this image come from, who uploaded it, and did anyone check the license before it went live.
Why ‘I Didn’t Know’ Is Not a Defense in a Copyright Enforcement Action
The most common response to a copyright demand letter, after the initial shock, is some version of this: we had no idea that image was protected.
Image Copyright for Local News Publishers: What the Law Actually Says
Copyright law is not complicated in its basics. A photograph belongs to the person who took it the moment they take it.
How a $10 Plugin Could Have Saved Me $1,250
The settlement check was $1,250. The image had been on the site for four months. Nobody remembered uploading it. Nobody remembered where it came from.
The Hidden Cost of Google Image Search in a Newsroom
Google Images does not tell you whether an image is free to use. It tells you where images are. Those are not the same thing.
What AP, Getty, and Reuters Do When They Find Their Images on Your Site
The letter does not come from AP. It does not come from Getty. It comes from a law firm you have never heard of, with a case number, a deadline, and a dollar amount.
Your Editors Are Using Images They Shouldn’t. You Already Know It.
You know it is happening. You have seen the screenshots in Slack, the images in stories that look like they came straight from a Getty watermarked search result.