Hi all,
Thanks very much indeed for all the excellent advice! It's true as Jim
said that a group which can collectively come up with about 15 different
ways to clean a mirror may deliver questionable legal advice, but it was
good to get a range of opinions on what I should do. I loved Walt's
suggested final paragraph, but was in the end more circumspect - I sent
them quite a polite e-mail pointing out my copyright notice on the web
page, saying they should have asked before using the pic on a commercial
website, and asking that they either remove the image or offer payment
for it.
Jeff and others suggested trying to benefit from the publicity, and I've
done this quite often with other people who want to use my photos, but
always with non-commercial operations. As the page under discussion
here is a commercial operation I'm not happy for them to be using my
image for free when all I get is a link to my web page. I'd rather they
didn't use it at all. Could be cutting off my nose to spite my face,
but that's how I feel on this one.
No reply as yet, and we'll see what they do. I can't see it getting to
the law stage, realistically, seeing as I'm in the UK and they're in the
US. If they don't respond agreeably to my polite note I'll have to
consider what I can do, but hopefully it'll all be sorted amicably.
It's at least heartening that someone thinks my photos are good enough
to steal. We'll see if they reckon they're good enough to pay for as well!
Thanks again everyone,
Roger
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