I won’t let The Sun go down on me
Several weeks ago The Sun newspaper illustrated an article about Katie Green with this picture they pinched off our website, and since then we have been trying to get them to admit it and pay a small but fair fee for its use. So what has happened in a battle with Mr Murdoch?
Well for about four weeks nothing happened at all. We sent them an invoice and heard not a peep. Then two days ago we had an e-mail from the features department saying that they didn’t get the photo from our website at all! We assured them that it had only appeared (legally) on our site and UMD (where it had our copyright logo on it) and if they did find it somewhere else could they tell us so we can berate them?. No, they said they got it from an agency! A few enquiries later and we discover they are talking about a different photo!
“No, not the clean one, the baked beans one!” we protested.
A few hours later…
“Oh yes, that’s yours…”
Oh good, at last, an admission!
“So you’ll be paying our invoice?”
“No, that’s a news picture, not features. You need to invoice their department….blah-de-blah…”
So we start again.
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