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David Rothan
Dec 09,2024Beware of this Scam company, In May 2023 I was contacted by Copyright Agent regarding an image on my website. After a battle of attrition I caved in and paid them the £550.00 In hindsight I should never have paid this. Now 6 months later I receive another demand for money, this time off a company called legaluk visual rights group. this started off along the same format straight into the threats designed to wear me down - sleepless nights etc. I answered them and explained all images have been removed from my website 6 months previously, but the insist I am currently displaying the image and sent me a live link to my own web site with a home page that had been clearly fabricated, I knew this because alterations I had made 3 weeks earlier at the advice of seo expert to the navigation menu were there, but the content of the page was of an old page from 6 months ago. So this clearly told me all was not as it seemed, I then clicked on the home button which would normally do nothing as I am already on the home page, but this directed me to my current genuine homepage, so clearly I had been hacked. So obviously I have no control over the page that has been constructed and this is how they are saying I am currently displaying the image. I am sure the two companies are linked in some way. hope this helps somebody out there being attacked by this scum
Steinar Ryggvik
Dec 04,2024Hei Har erfaring fra slik type bedrift/l9vlig svindel. Gjør det enkelt, bestrid deres krav. Da må de gå via forliksrådet for å få betalt. Det vi si at de må betale gebyr for å få saken inn dit og dermed så vil de måtte bruke mer enn hva de "tjener" på sin lovlige svindel. Hilsen en som ikke liker svindlere.
Thomas Rosenstand
Nov 28,2024Uden diskussion et svindelforetagende. De har forsøgt at afpresse en af mine virksomheder ved at kræve 2.700 kr. i "erstatning" for brugen af et billede fra "en af deres klienter". Nuvel, billedet er fra en Alamy stockfoto CD, som mit reklamebureau købte engang tilbage i 2004 eller 2005. Vi har derfor fuld brugerrettighed over billedet. Pas grundigt på med det firma - det er 100% scam!
Leon Birdi
Nov 28,2024Sender opkrævning for et privat Facebook-opslag hvor jeg laver sjov med en stavefejl på dr.dk :-) Det er åbenbart en forbrydelse - helt uden for skiven!
Anders
Nov 25,2024svindel firma med svindel på sender en mail på engelsk ....og påstår at et billede er af anden oprindelse en fra mit firma ...hvilket er lodret løgn og man forlanger penge /bøde ...........der er ingen kontakt info i mailen fra (copyrightagentsvindel.com )
Johan Bredsack
Nov 22,2024The worst kind of company, a quick effort to grab some cash. A serious legal company would first send a cease & desist, but not this bunch hoping for quick cash.
Peter
Nov 19,2024De er et scam firma. Sidder åbenbart og scanner efter steder de kan presse penge ud af foreninger osv. ved at fremsende fakturaer med trusler om inkasso og fogedret.
The Magic Shooter
Nov 12,2024Åbenlyst planttenslageri. Konstruerer beviser med skjulte billeder og sender krav for billeder som stort international firma har købt retten til at kunne bruge hos deres forhandlere. Bare ignorer deres mails. Det er fup. Svar dem ikke.
Tim Wade
Nov 04,2024Hi Kasper Jørgensen, Like I said to Jamie - give me the photographers details and I'll contact him to explain. No it is not up to me to argue the toss with Impact and Domino who obviously had express permission to use it, neither is it up to that idiot in the office Jamie Surnameless to keep threatening me with prosecution if I don't pay your scam outfit $250 even when I removed it at the first time of being notified. It is up to you (or the photographer) to put me in a UK small claims court and prove I profited from the use of an image I was fairly using to promote Domino's Pizza, who probably commissioned the image to start with. Fact is that page made nothing, didn't sell one pizza, and you and the photographer don't stand a change of winning the case whatsoever. My guess is you don't even know the photographer and are doing reverse tineye image lookups on stock images and then chancing it with people. Like I told Jamie countless times, if COPYRIGHT AGENT want more bad publicity, then just keep replying to me. Or put me in court for using an image with the sole permission of Domino's Pizza. If they are using your photographers image, then get your photographer onto them (if you actually know him). It is no longer my concern unless you keep hounding me. I've already wasted enough time over this $10 image. Take it up with Domino's, not me. A kid could get a better picture of any Domino's in any town or city anyway, with a phone - let's hope they never use your photographer again when they read this. I wouldn't. The whole webpage went months ago anyway, to my expense in wasted time. Waste any more of mine on this silly issue and I'll start invoicing you with ridiculous-priced invoices and small claims - we can all play that game. I'll look forward to attending court and claiming my and my legal team's costs, expenses and loss earnings, if you really want to go for it. I've got it all documented. It's 163 bad reviews now. Want to make it 164? Banning people from replying on the original review after you think you've had the last word. What a joke. We can take it to Medium, Blogify, Quora, Pinterest, WordPress or 1001 other high DA websites if you'd like even more bad reputation and toxic articles affecting your Google rank, to clear up? Just keep reply and look for your and your company name appearing in Google Search Console or set Google Alerts to notify you of them popping up. Just try me - I'm totally in the right on this one and know libel laws. I can tell the truth all year on whichever sites I like about this experience with your organisation! Have a nice day.
Rob
Nov 04,2024This is a Shakedown company, best case just a bunch of scammers who need to learn how not to bully. Basically they send emails claiming you violated someones IP or copyrighted art work and want you to click on their link and using credentials they send you log in. YEAH RIGHT! If they really were legit, they would send a cease and desist letter or at least some letter, not just an email with a link expecting victims or targets to click on some nefarious link!
Madelén
Oct 23,2024Sjukt Oseriöst! Kommer en faktura med påstådd överträdelse av upphovsrätten. Då mailet med betalningskrav lyser Spam har jag kastat det i skräpposten. Efter en månad kommer ytterligare ett krav och då med hot om inkasso. (För övrigt ett inkassoföretag med dålig rating och även det verkar vara blufföretag) Efter timmar av sökande hur jag ska gå till väga för att bli av med dessa så betalade jag ändå till slut, för att slippa dessa skojare och för att slippa risken med ännu dyrare juristkostnader / inkassoavgift. Vidrigt att dessa ska kunna finnas och att jag nu betalat för deras upprätthållande av verksamhet, men orkar inte kolla upp mer angående detta. Tvivlar starkt på att pengarna går till påstått ändamål. Upprörd till MAX!
Rene T
Sep 19,2024Igen fik jeg et urealistisk krav - som er sket i 2020-2021-2022 nu i 2024. Denne gang gik i for langt og sendte kravet til min kunde trods i kunne se det var min salgs opstilling. Som de andre gange har jeg måtte dokumentere - og denne gang har jeg måtte blande min samarbejdspartner i det, som iøvrigt har taget det konkrete billede. Ergo skal jeg undskylde til samarbejdspartner og kunder nu for at i fejler - eller rettere sagt som i skriver: Vi beklager den ulejlighed dette måtte have bragt alle parter. Det er under alt kritik - I skaber mistillid mellem andre partner/kunde relationer nu. Og undskyldningen er at jeres system gør det. Jeg har tænkt at fremsende krav på min tid nu til jer. - Jeg har brugt for mange timer på at forklare min uskyld - Jeres svar var: Vi kan ikke acceptere en regning for den tid. Det burde ikke være lovligt.
APO Admin
Sep 09,2024This is a scam. In Copyright Law - if you have unknowlingly used copyrighted material, the first thing that must happen is the copyright holder send you a cease and desist. You are then obliged to remove any use of that material. If you do this - END OF CASE. You are not obliged to pay for the material if you removed it when notified. I know this because I have had to follow this process for my own material. This organisation is unlawfully saying that I owe them money when I have removed the image and it wasn't used by me. My website is a library of material published by other organisations. An organisation used the image in their report. I have no idea if that organisation paid for that image or not. So it makes no sense that I would have to pay for it. Response to comments: "If an image is used without proper authorization, liability may fall on the party that made the image available to the public." Yes, exactly and it wasn't my organisation that made the image available to the public - that was the organisation that used the image in their report which they published. It is interesting to note that the comments do not quote any actual legislation which only proves my point.
Edward Felsenthal
Sep 06,2024The most unpleasant experience getting screwed over by leeches. AI will kill this company soon, hopefully. I have switched over to AI images for all photographs I can't take myself. No loss whatsoever, in fact I like the AI images much better than the images I got off the internet.
James Woolfenden
Sep 05,2024We accepted wrongdoing and paid another company, then these vultures started emailing. They do not care, they will relentlessly email you with threats and constantly claim to be doing righteous work. Response to reply: You were perfectly aware, I made you aware of this at every stage during our interactions, the entire contents of every email I sent to you was detailing the facts. You pushed your luck and hoped I would just give up and pay. You even ended one email with "We ask that you settle the claim to resolve this matter."
Christopher
Aug 15,2024Pounced on a newsletter for one tiny picture in a submission. Despite a circulation of 500 copies which are given for FREE just to tell residents about their community you sent them a massive violation bill. So a strapped for cash community effort has to pay you thanks to your scraping software, which trawled back to 2021. They have no control over every submission supplied. People give freely of their own time to create this. I hope you're proud. Sharp practice. I'm pretty disgusted in all honestly. I await your prickly reply. Glad to change my opinion of you if you prove otherwise and show a tiny village a little leniency. In reply to your comment on the 19th of August Sam. 1. It is not an organisation, as well you know. A few people in a parish compiling a newsletter. 2. It is not possible to vet every submission from multiple sources. People give freely of their own time. 3. Articles are supplied in an altruistic sense, out of love for their community, there is no financial gain. 4. When an article comes to us labelled with image 1. There's no way to readily ascertain ownership. 5. This had a print run of 500 copies which were handed out free of charge and delivered by hand, by people that love their community. The only people hurt was by a genuine oversight, that cost the photographer £40 not £500. I looked. I stand by my original review. In this case your "work" I'd class as wanton opportunism over those least able to defend themselves. They now have to run every image through tineye as a precaution, as they frankly can't afford another costly mistake from a charitable venture. You simply snowball a modest cost, then take some very shaky moral high ground like you're on some type of virtuous crusade, rather than looking to profiteer without conscience. We can always delete this review... I'll leave it with you. Perhaps you could tell me how much the photographer actually received from your £500?
EssexBoy
Aug 01,2024I received a very threatening legal-sounding email from this company. Whilst not exactly 'scammers' in the 'Nigerian' sense, they are 'bluff merchants', sending out masses of heavy emails threatening legal action, in the hope that a certain percentage of the recipients will send them loads-a-money. They do not take matters any further, and do not issue proceedings and do not instruct lawyers to do so. My suggestion is to print out any email you receive from them, find the nearest refuse bin, throw the print-out into the said bin and get on with your (legitimate) business and forget all about these scumbags.
Hamzeh Idris
Jul 12,2024SCAM SCAM!!
Christine
Jul 11,2024Så har jeg også oplevet at få en inkassosag på halsen på vegne af copyright agent. For det første har jeg aldrig modtaget nogen mail med deres opkrævning, før de har sendt den til inkasso. For det andet er jeg ikke gjort bekendt med, hvad jeg skal betale for. Når man googler firmaet ser man, at de er berømte for deres svindel. Dybt useriøst. Reply: You are lying! 1. You never sent an invoice or any other form of information before sending it to collections. 2. There was no evidence of prior communication attached to the letter from collections. 3. It wasn’t even specified which picture I allegedly used without permission. All in all, you give the impression of being an unprofessional company trying to scam people. You should be ashamed of yourselves!
MacKenzie Brown
Jan 04,2025This company is fraudulent. They'll send a boilerplate message and demand payment for copyright infringement even though they have no claim on the IP for any of the assets that they mention. Pure fraud.