From Harry Fear:
From: Harry Fear <mail@harryfear.co.uk>
Date: Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:15 PM
Subject: Copyright breach notification
To: editor@hurryupharry.net
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to alert to you to two counts of copyright breaching that are occurring on your website.The website, hurryupharry.net, is using without license legally protected images owned by myself, without authorisation. Both images are clearly copyright-noticed, and your use of them without permission is illegal under British law.
Please remove the images as soon as possible. Should you refuse to do so, I am prepared to seek legal advice.
For your aid, the images are:
(1) http://hurryupharry.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/web-155.jpg — copyright Harry Fear. This image has been taken from harryfear.co.uk, which contains an explicit copyright notice.
(2) http://hurryupharry.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/526806_10150710742672357_510962356_9307344_1223762571_n.jpg — copyright Harry Fear. This image has been taken fromfacebook.com, which also has an explicit copyright policy, which has too be breached.
I expect a webmaster or editor to deal with this matter promptly, e.g. in the next 48hrs.
Best regards,
Harry Fear
These are the pictures which Harry Fear wants us to take down.
He’s using precisely the same tactics as Arthur Kemp, the former British National Party officer, who has similarly used copyright claims to prevent us from reporting on his antics.
In the second picture, Harry Fear is displaying a poster in which he has misspelled “Trayvon” as “Trayvorn”.
We don’t propose to take these pictures down. It is disgraceful for political activists to use threats like this, to prevent the reproduction of photographs which they themselves have put into the public domain.
Here’s another picture which Harry Fear sent us, along with his email.
You’ll note that Harry Fear has a photograph of the MP to whom he encouraged his frightening friends to write, on his own website. Who owns the copyright in that?
