Hi,

I have discovered a company that has used 2 of my images in a national (poss international) advertising campaign to promote a product that calms difficult animals. I have had to do all the work to track down usage as they refused to divulge information. I called the company and spoke to the "director" who stated "Its only a couple of small images,whats your/The problem ?".#

It is a half page advert in 4+ different national magazines to a (combined publishers)print run of 330,000+ copies plus "in house" usage. I have no idea of foreign Equestrian publications to contact to ask about international usage but the company trades all over Europe and the US, Canada etc...
The images were reserved by us and its a long story as to how they got them but the point is they did.

Who is likely to want to "take on" this case as i valued the images quite highly.

They are very difficult to capture and I had resurved them for our own customers. In the last 6 years we have been doing equestrian photography we take on average from 3000+ images a week and can field up to 6 photographers (each taking approx 1000 images)and we have extensive archives. The archives contain approx 900,000 images (at a guess) or more and of these we have 2 of a horse doing what this horse is doing and that's in 6 years.

A solicitor who has experience would be great. I don`t think a few hundred pounds is considerable recompence for this infringement. Any help with a value for the images?

thanks
shan