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Our website is an educational platform for young people to write and engage in politics. All our content is user-generated (similar to a youtube for writers) by young people and although we stress the use of images they own or get permission for, at times they do end up uploading copyrighted material in error. We have a clear process for removing images that breach this copyright.
That said, we have now a legal question we need to sort and require assistance in.
Matteo B.
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Matteo B.17 Apr 2018To give you a clear picture. As mentioned, our website is an educational platform for young people to write and engage in politics. All our content is user-generated (similar to a youtube for writers) by young people and although we stress the use of images they own or get permission for, at times they do end up uploading copyrighted material in error.
On our contact page, we have a clear form that allows any copyright holder to contact us and request an image be removed if copyright exists. When this happens we endeavour to remove the copyrighted material within 24hours of it being brought to our attention. We have reviewed this case and removed the image.
Currently, we have a copyright law firm (representing a photographer) who contacted us about a copyright image. As soon as we had seen that it was indeed copyrighted we removed it as our protocol suggests. However, they are now demanding a payment of over £700 for this images, which would really be worth less than £10 (if comparing it to similar images on stock sites).
I am curious to see if we are actually liable as the image wasn't used to sell a product, we run a user-generated platform for education in politics and removed the image when it was brought to our attention.
Let me know if this is something you can advise on.