My New Idea - Any Comments?

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Thanks for the replies guys.

I made this post just to check whether I was being fair! Sometimes one can get so focused that you can't see the wood for the trees. Your replies have helped reassure me. It seems you're in agreement that what he's done by licencing/charging commission for his artwork is plainly wrong.

Cheers

John

[arko]

...............keep "his" money, photocopy it and send it to him with a few altered details and say it is now "your" artwork and you are keeping it! ...............Im sure he will understand!. You can be rest assured he wont even bother looking in the yellow pages for a solicitor!. As long as he doesn't have access to your website log-in details I think you can safely say you haven't got a thing to worry about!

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The facts are that even with his invoice for £956 he would still owe us money.

One thing I want to avoid is conflict with him. I gave him complete control over our website - he built it! I also paid the monthly hosting fees for his own website + more. At outset I made it clear that I didn't want any 'hookey' artwork on our site, paying a licence fee/commission wouldn't have made the risk worthwhile.

I will add, it's not so much the copyright angle that concerns me, it's more the fact that I was led to believe the artwork was his creation when all along, it wasn't. I could have done what he was doing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no angel when it comes to copyright, I have been known to take the occasional calculated risk in pursuit of making a few quid, but that was completely within my control.

John

[arko]

.....time to change them log-in details mate.......... btw.......... I have server space if you ever get stuck!

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.....time to change them log-in details mate.......... btw.......... I have server space if you ever get stuck!

The first thing I did

I'm okay with my VPS server hosting for now but thanks for the offer