Calling on my blogging friends to advise me. Several years ago, I posted a picture on a post which I found googling. The photographer has contacted me, demanding that I remove it. He has sent an invoice and claims that I infringed on copyright.
He has begun to harrass me, sending several emails a day, threatening to report me for copyright infringement, and listing the penalties.
I deleted the photos after his first request.
Is this a scam or an unhinged harrasser?
Do you make money on your blog? I don’t really know anything about this, but common sense says, if you were not using the photo for gain, and you removed it when asked, to dun you is harassment.
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I do not, and I have pointed out that I have had very few readers. Several threatening emails today equals harassment in my opinion. If he had made a reasonable case that I owe him, I would probably have complied. But the aggressive nature of his emails has me wondering if it’s a scam, or if he has been hacked.
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Thank you for taking the trouble to advise me!
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