Policing Illegal Image Usage: What You Can Do
We have come across websites which are using fotoLibra images without paying for them. They are using watermarked Preview images, which anyone is at liberty to drag off the site, but not for commercial...
View ArticleA Fairy Tale Of New York …
… and Pennsylvania, and Indonesia … Once upon a time (early this morning, actually) there was a photographer who came across a lovely website called fotoLibra. “Gosh,” he thought. “If I sign up I can...
View ArticleContentious VAT On Ebooks
Printed books are zero-rated for VAT in the UK. Ebooks are taxed at 20%. Publishers have taken a softly-softly approach to VAT on ebooks, fearful that if they kick up too much of a fuss the Government...
View ArticlePerpetual Vigilance
If you run a shop, shrinkage is the name you give to shoplifting. I guess it's endemic. If you run a website like fotoLibra, you make sure you are as well protected as possible from shoplifters, or...
View ArticleAmazon Patents The Photographic Studio
Let’s get this straight — I love America. It’s a great place; brash, confident, a can-do country. If a British business fails, the humiliation and disgrace is a permanent stain. If an American business...
View ArticleHow It Works
If the image belongs to one of our Pro or Platinum contributors, we will institute court proceedings.
View ArticleSlow To Chide And Swift To Bless
The pulchritudinous chanteuse Taylor Swift attracted plaudits this week for defying the might of Apple, the world’s most profitable company. She wrote “We don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t...
View ArticleA Little Help Here?
As you all know, I am an extremely intelligent person, with a brain the size of an asteroid. But even my great intellect has stalled when faced with the concept for a proposed bill to be placed in...
View ArticleA Note On A Vote
On our last blog A Little Help Here I asked friends of fotoLibra to contact their MEPs to ask them to vote against the clause in the Reda Report aimed at restricting the freedom of panorama — the...
View ArticlefotoLibra Smashes International Drug Ring
Well, that might be pushing it a bit, but I’ve always wanted to write a headline like that. We take care to vet every image uploaded to fotoLibra. The first hurdle of course is quality; images must...
View ArticleFrightful Owner
David Carton, one of fotoLibra’s valued contributors, has uploaded some of his images to specialist ecommerce sites as well as to fotoLibra. Recently he was informed by one of these sites that they...
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