Thread: This is just too funny!!

Send them a registered letter describing the copyright infringement.
Quote the relevant section from your copyright law.
The settlement is nominally 10X what the rights would have cost them in the first place.
Just taking the image down isn't good enough (print their website page). What's done is done.

I've had my photography stolen and used for business promotion, without my permission.
When they learned what the court-ordered (out of my hands) settlement costs would be, they were most anxious to settle quietly.
Worked for me. Just business. Nothing personal.

AND, they've got a picture of a table I made in Melanuk on there as well!!! This is getting scary!

Regards,

Rob

Originally Posted by Fuzzie

I agree a link back would be an honorable thing for Pac Timbers to do, but just a couple of questions out of interest. Was the furniture made for a client? Is the photo a picture of the final product in the client's possession? If so, if the client paid and it is in their possession is it the client or the maker who would be the copyright owner? Who took the photo?

Well, if you look closely you will see that they didn't quite manage to edit the picture sitting on top of the cabinet out of the image they used.
If you want to cheat someone, you will have to be more clever than that.