Firstly, I’d like to thank you for your interest in my previous paintings and for sharing them on your website / blog. It really is much appreciated.
However, I am getting in touch as I have been experiencing significant problems recently due to copyright infringement. There are particular private collectors and institutions (who cannot be named due to legal reasons) who have bought my paintings over the past 10 years and are requesting that images of these paintings are to be removed from websites and blogs. This is because, as they are now the owners of these works, they want to control the ways in which they are accessible online, in order to preserve the market value of these paintings. Due to this, I’m afraid I am getting in touch to ask you to remove the images of my paintings off this page.
I fully respect that you have shared these artworks with the best of intentions. However, because the collectors and institutions have a basis for charging for the licence, which you do not have, they have begun calculating the licence fee for the use of these copyright protected artworks. This has pushed me to contact you (among other sites) and request that you remove the images in question as soon as is feasibly possible. Let me take this opportunity to let you know that I am in the process of getting my new work out there and so please do check out my website.
Again, thank you for your interest, support and understanding in this matter, and for your time and energies.
ReplyDeleteDear Snudel
Firstly, I’d like to thank you for your interest in my previous paintings and for sharing them on your website / blog. It really is much appreciated.
However, I am getting in touch as I have been experiencing significant problems recently due to copyright infringement. There are particular private collectors and institutions (who cannot be named due to legal reasons) who have bought my paintings over the past 10 years and are requesting that images of these paintings are to be removed from websites and blogs. This is because, as they are now the owners of these works, they want to control the ways in which they are accessible online, in order to preserve the market value of these paintings.
Due to this, I’m afraid I am getting in touch to ask you to remove the images of my paintings off this page.
I fully respect that you have shared these artworks with the best of intentions. However, because the collectors and institutions have a basis for charging for the licence, which you do not have, they have begun calculating the licence fee for the use of these copyright protected artworks. This has pushed me to contact you (among other sites) and request that you remove the images in question as soon as is feasibly possible.
Let me take this opportunity to let you know that I am in the process of getting my new work out there and so please do check out my website.
Again, thank you for your interest, support and understanding in this matter, and for your time and energies.
All the best,
Benjamin Cohen
www.benjamin-cohen.co.uk