Send them a bill!

hehe no need to guess. the email on the newspaper is a giveaway. that’s some serious copyright violation, especially when the plate number on the kalesa was erased.

Hi Abe!

Thanks for the support.

ill have to find out who is in charge.. then bill them accordingly..

Oh? Will sending them a bill be effective? Cause I should probably be sending bills as well to a magazine, two television stations, and a newspaper.

I’m surprised at MB. Ajay works there right? Why is she even part of this publication when it obviously disregards the intellectual property rights of people especially bloggers? Shame.

when you delay you give them power, I mean. But compensate by escalating. Class action will be more effective but individual suits more lucrative.

delay or no delay there has been a copyright infringement.. a violation of my intellectual property rights…

Try billing them and If they disagree.. I think there will be a need for a blogger brigade..

Tsk, tsk. In fairness, it’s not MB alone who’s been caught flatfooted with this. It’s time media outfits assign an officer to check facts and copyright issues. IT’S TIME ALSO THAT PRs and PUBLICISTS STOP SENDING PRESS RELEASES TO NEWSPAPERS THAT WERE TAKEN FROM BLOGS!!! I highly suspected this with Marketmanila’s plagiarized recipe for bulalo.On the other hand, it is easy for responsible editors and their staff to verify titles, keywords and pictures by Googling them. I was a regular of MB for five years and I don’t know this Max Ballesteros .. I am 101% sure he’s not on the regular roster of reporters.

When I saw what paper did this, I was not surprised. They only sell due to their classfied ads, no more no less, many thanks to being government puppies.

how much? Inquirer gives up to 400 per photo.

Since they didn’t even bother to ask for permission, don’t go for the standard rate.

Instead, go to a stock photo site and get the rate for downloading a similarly sized image. Find the lowest rate you can find if you’re feeling generous – that will probably be a dollar or so.

Once you have that rate, multiply it by the claimed circulation of the broadsheet. That’s what you bill them.

That’s the added fee for not asking for permission.

Oh, you can also check out this PopPhoto Flash article on defending your copyright.

just one question…
how come even after he complained, he still came out in manila bulletin’s picture perfect as their featured photograher??

We have setup www.copyright.ph for those people that need to get their story out and need protection from copyright violators that infringe on our basic rights..

Help us build the site by adding your stories to the list so we can educate and get our stories out and hopefully put a stop to all these copyright infringment.

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Thanks for your input on the copyright issue!