I have been blogging for many years now and have really enjoyed my time in the blogosphere. However, I received - erroneously - an invoice from a large media company stating that I'd used one of their images without a licence.
The invoice was for £500.
Convinced it was a scam, I contacted the media company in question. Thankfully it was not actually my blog (god knows how my details came to be linked to it) and I fully expected the company to say that it wasn't anything to do with them.
But it was.
They are using AI to automatically scour the internet and invoice people whom they believe are using their images without proper licencing. Let me be clear, the blog in question was a small, hobby blog - not making money off any advertising, not using the image in its branding etc. A blog just like this one.
They cancelled the invoice to me.
But some blogger somewhere is going to get an invoice for £500 in the next few days. No request for a take down, straight in with the demand for cash.
So I've unpublished everything and will only republish the posts when I am certain that the imagery is creative commons.
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