There is no issue here. You pull the offending material.......period! Not knowing of any copyright or accepting the word of a client is no excuse in law.

A couple of years back I built a site and was given the material to use. I asked if this material was original. The answer was yes, all ours.

Wrong, there was a little almost insignificant picture of a firework exploding in the sky. (100x100 pixels) After a year of it being up on the net I received a notification from a lawyers office representing a major, world famous (really, really, really big) US foundation to pay $5,000 for the use of the image and a further $5,000 for the continued use or pull it within 24 hours. No contest....... it went! I was surprised to be so firmly dealt with by a such a huge organisation, but getting stroppy with the lawyer or the client was never an option.

This is fast becoming big business on the internet, copyright infringement, finding it, then terrifying the web designer/site owner into parting with money. It did not work with me because I am on a little Greek island and financially secure enough to call the bluff. There are now the equivilent of lawyer Ambulance chasers working the WWW over copyright. Beware!

However on the other side of the coin I spend hours every week taking pictures here and working images for my websites. Every single image is mine and mine alone but I see my images on other peoples' websites all the time. When you have worked an image you know what's yours! Some have not even bothered to change the properties!

So far whilst it is irritating, I take it as a compliment, any other way would involve me in lowering myself to the level of this U.S. Grotty foundation.

Astro
(Here we go!!! MIB with surgically removed fins at my door!....................... I didn't name 'em your honour promise!)

P.S. Sometimes I think this world would be a much better place without lawyers or polititians, they never make anything, save anything, or improve anything. They are just an expensive cost centre!

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