Privacy Policy
Warning To: Copyright Trolls
The curse of “copyright trolls” has been a problem in the United States of America for several years and we would urge ALL web-site and web-platform administrators to beware of these disreputable “copyright trolls”. Especially if you are a charity or not-for-profit facility. The “copyright trolls” extort significant sums from small sites under threats of massive litigation. What these “copyright trolls” do not tell you is that the courts are becoming wise to the fact that “copyright trolls” drag the reputation of the law through the mud, and excrement polluted mud at that.
Copyright Trolls Use HM Courts As Tools Of Threat.
Our managing director has witnessed judges verbally disembowel people who use their court as a tool of threat. The rejoinder from the judges is that “HM Courts are there to hear cases and dispense justice.” Not to be used as a threat by these unscrupulous quasi-lawyers to extort money by their industrial conveyer-belt of dodgy litigation.
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We relaunched this site in 2024, from the original 1984 paper version which then went online in 2012…
^^ Online In 2012 ^^
First Published: Paper Format Monthly From 1984.
Then Transferred To The Online Version In 2012.
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As the disreputable “copyright troll” attorneys/lawyers are getting STRUCK OFF and/or DISBARRED from practicing law in America, several of the greedy dissemblers are now aggressively attempting to extort exaggerated claims for money by searching for people in other countries. Specifically to extract money from under highly dubious circumstances. As at 2024, the focus is targeted on Europe and the United Kingdom.
Our One of our associate companies is currently litigating with one of these copyright-troll “lawyers.” They have little training in UK law and no apparent credentials that allow them to practice in the UK, using the term “lawyer”.
Worse for the copyright-troll and their client. Our friends as the associate limited company have PAID the requisite COPYRIGHT LICENCE FEE for which they are being “penalty-infringement charged.”
It appears that the “photographer” has changed AWAY from “ALAMY” and gone across to a less reputable agency. Then the photographer has FORGOTTEN about the earlier contracts they signed and money they were paid).
Our colleagues ha bought a COPYRIGHT-IN–PERPETUITY” licence. So we hope that the photographer reads about the Robert Miller case before incurring eye watering costs (Miller et al: click here).
Whereas the managing director of both this and our associated publication does have a little experience in law and is liaising with our proper lawyers to see the appropriate legal remedy to ensure these “copyright trolls” cease and desist.
Here is a photograph of our managing director in his earlier career (and founding trustee of two charities), so that the “copyright trolls” can recognise him. This is a real police uniform. Unlike the “copyright trolls”, the legal profession in the UK tends to prefer that officers of the Crown and HM Court, have the appropriate credentials and bona fides.
^^ Constable Russ McLean & Sheena McGillivray ^^
^^ On The Island of Islay ^^
For this segment of our PRIVACY page, PLEASE NOTE THAT COPYRIGHT TROLLS ARE BANNED.
If in doubt, here is what is happening to “copyright trolls” in America…
>>>>>>> Click Here <<<<<<<
We believe passionately that photographers MUST be credited PROPERLY and PAID REMUNERATION when sought or as their terms.
This web domain qualifies for and abides by the Creative Commons protocol. Even so, we donate funds every month to websites such as Geograph and we always make best endeavours to properly attribute the very kind and decent souls who share their photographs for public education and the common good of society.
When we need to utilise photograph-agencies, we always ensure payment has been made.
But if we are approached by a “copyright troll” we shall seek the appropriate law enforcement from the police (notwithstanding any civil court remedy available to this site).
This Lighthouse Bulletin is clean and clear from these “copyright trolls” with each and every photograph’s credentials and authorship being audited before being uploaded.
Our sister company is the one in process of seeking criminal action against a notorious “copyright troll.” We shall be watching that case carefully.
In the meantime, if you operate a web-site or internet-platform, you may wish to avail yourself of details and court transcript provided by some excellent research by the likes of Mike Masnick…
Disbarred Copyright Troll Case Law
Thank You Mike.
There are other infamous copyright trolls
Paul Levy & Mike Masnick deserve a medals…
Our associated website’s intention is to seek criminal infraction against these “copyright trolls” and once that case is heard, here in the UK., then it may stand as PRECEDENT in the UK as a way to stop these disreputable bulk-litigant COPYRIGHT TROLLS from abusing HM Courts as TOOLS OF THREAT
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CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
If you allege that you are a copyright owner or an agent with explicit permission to represent your client (and not an aggressive, a hominem vexatious litigant such as Matthew Higbee in his describing a legal process litigant as “delusional” (here)), and believe that any User Submission or other content infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) by providing our Copyright Agent with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) for further detail):
- Identification of the copyrighted work or works claimed to have been infringed;
- Identification of the material on our servers that is claimed to be infringing and that is to be removed, including the URL or list of URLs or other information to enable us to locate the material;
- A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by you as copyright owner, or by your agent, or by law;
- A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner (or authorised to act on behalf of the owner) of the exclusive copyright right that is allegedly being infringed.
- Your physical or electronic signature, or of someone authorized to act on your behalf;
- Instructions on how we may contact you, preferably by recorded deliver mail (UK).
Our agent to receive such notifications of claimed infringement is Mr Stuart McLaren.
Stuart McLaren, Endeavour House, 1 James Street, Arbroath, Angus, Scotland, UK. DD11 1JP.
Advisory ~ Mathew Higbee Copyright Troll
We are ingathering plaintiffs for a UK based Class Action against the infamous, disreputable “Copyright Troll” Mathew Higbee.
As mentioned in the preceding segment, Mike Masnik should be receiving a Congressional Medal and good citizenship award for his work in exposing the blight on the American legal system.
Unfortunately, the very worst of the great nation of America is being visited upon Europe and the United Kingdom by such vexatious litigants as the ex-lawyer, Richard Liebowitz.
If you have been the victim of a Higbee Copyright Troll Attack and would wish to counterclaim against this profiteer from the demise of non-profit and charity educational efforts, please study this...
…and you wish to join in a Class Action to have Higbee enjoy the same professional fate as has legal equivalent the ex-lawyer, Richard Liebowitz, then please contact us at the address in the preceding segment.
Thank you.
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Photographers
The Good, The Bad & The Mugged
This “Lighthouse Bulletin” believes very strongly in supporting: (i) amateur and: (ii) professional photographers.
THE GOOD
(i an ii): For over a decade we have donated, monthly, to the amazingly GOOD Geograph website in order to support their efforts (click here).
(ii) This “Lighthouse Bulletin” pays professional photograph agencies such s ALAMY, so that photographers wishing a fee for their work, should be properly recognised and remunerated. Both in copyright attribution (under or) on their photograph.
Of material importance, we always publish a link to the RECEIPT and reference that we have paid. This brings us to…
THE BAD
COPYRIGHT TROLLS BE PUT ON NOTICE: If the likes of Copyright Trolls Higbee or Liebowitz issue missives to us, to extort funds for photographs we have already attributed to the author AND for which we HAVE evidence PAYMENT for copyright permission in respect of such photographs, then…
WE WILL CHARGE HIGBEE AND THEIR ILK a MINIMUM of: UK-Sterling at £125 (one hundred and twenty five pounds) per hour of our legal team’s time (barrister/advocate rates are charged pro rata and are significantly higher than £125).
Plus we shall be seeking costs. A salutary lesson to those FEW photographers who fall for Higbee et al and their spiel about getting rich quick over a photograph they are retailing at £14.25…
THE MUGGED PHOTGRAPHER
(our sympathies to you)
Some might allege that the prospect of what the likes of ALAMY charge £5.80 to £41.40 for, and fall for the Copyright Troll’s GET RICH QUICK spiel that makes their £5.80 photograph worth a too-good-to-be-true: £1,800 “penalty-infringement” as “greed.”
When reading the FACT that hapless photographer, Robert Miller has a lien (mortgage) placed on his house for vast sums of legal fees due to Higbee making a mess, it is difficult to have sympathy for such stupidity and/or naivety as evidenced in Robert Miller’s pleas when trying to sack HIS copyright troll lawyer Mathew Higbee.
Robert Miller’s alleged greed has now become a modern day “Merchant of Venice” and lesson about greed and what can happen to the avarice of some “photographers” who lose sight of decency, justice and fairness.
Photographer, Robert Miller is now begging a judge to save his home from being forfeited (repossessed) over a snap (photograph) that many contemporaries retail at £14.25 per copyright licence.
Some say, if you conduct yourself as a greedy person, don’t be surprised when the law sits up and dispenses fair justice, Judgement of Solomon style…
The Mugged Photographer
The Moral? Do Not Be Greedy
Court Pleadings:-
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Advisory: Robert Miller Lessons
(Here)
If the “Lighthouse Bulletin” removes your user content in response to a copyright or trademark notice, we will notify you via a site notification. If you believe your user content was wrongly removed due to a mistake or misidentification of the material, you can send a counter-notice to our Copyright Agent (contact information provided above) that must include the following:
Your physical signature;
Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and where the material was located online before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
A statement by you, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and
Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of UK Court, or USA Federal District Court (we retain US counsel) for the judicial district in which the address is located.
Alternatively, if your address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under DMCA 512 subsection (c)(1)(c) or an agent of such person.
Upon receiving a counter-notice we will forward it to the complaining party and tell them we will restore your content within 14 (fourteen) days. If that party does not notify us that they have filed an action to enjoin your use of that content before that period passes, we will consider restoring your user content to the site.
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General
Thank you for using our Lighthouse Bulletin facility which is owned and operated by the not-for-profit entity: Unique Property Bulletin Ltd. We have created this policy to let you, (“the user”) know how we respect your privacy and confidentiality. The following sections detail the privacy practices for: www.lighthousesforsale.co.uk ~ and the penultimate name for this Lighthouse Bulletin component of the new owner after transfer work during 2024 to our NEW registered charity. These internet-based pages will b known by the updated name…
This web domain now registered and awaiting construction.
Otherwise known as “the sites” and associated sites owned or operated by the Lighthouse Bulletin.
Registration & Privacy
When using the site, either at present or in the future, we may, at times, ask you to supply either/or an email address, username or password. We request this information to either uniquely identify yourself to supply online services or to return information to yourself via email or another data transfer system. We do not forward any of this information to mailing lists.
Stored Information
If you send us information via email we may store the information in a file specific to yourself. We may also record IP addresses to record the frequency and source of visitors to the site, this information remains within the company and is not forwarded or sold to any third party.
Links
The site, may, either at present or in the future, contain a number of links to other sites. You should be aware that these sites are beyond our control and are therefore not covered by this statement.
Notification of Change
We reserve the right to modify or update this privacy statement without prior notice.
Cookies
This website uses things called “Cookies” to ensure your experience of the site, and our ability to improve it is enhanced. Some of the following Cookies may, from time to time be in use:
– Social Media Sharing and Integration (3rd party). For Facebook, Twitter and Google functionality within this site in order that you can share items of interest, or join as a link to our Social Media Profiles. You can find out more about Facebook’s Cookie use here:
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Twitter’s here: https://twitter.com/privacy
Along with Google here: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
We also sometimes use video embedding, like YouTube or Vimeo (3rd party) to enhance your experience of content on our site. You can find out about YouTube’s Cookie policy here:
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Our site also uses Cookies to enhance the experience for members / users, as follows:
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If you have any questions regarding our privacy policies, please do not hesitate in contacting us:-
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LEGAL NOTICE TO PICSCOUT, GETTY IMAGES, PICSCOUT CLIENTS, and CYVEILLANCE INTELLIGENCE CENTRE their subsidiaries, agents, and assigns: You are prohibited from accessing this web site.
Legal Notice to PicScout, http://www.picscout.com/ ,Getty Images, http://www.gettyimages.com/ trading as: GYI , all other customers of PicScout, and Cyveillance Intelligence Center http://www.cyveillance.com/, and to any and all clients of Cyveillance Intelligence Center, their subsidiaries, agents, or assigns are prohibited from accessing Lighthouse Bulletin. Our company and it’s websites are explicitly operated in principle and practice as not-for-profit, and this is proven in our official accounts as filed with the UK Registrar of Companies.
1]. Permission for the copyright scanning robot program known as PicScout and for robots owned or operated by Cyveillance Intelligence Center, Getty Images, their subsidiaries, agents, and assigns to access this site is EXPLICITLY DENIED. All other robots which scan content for the purpose of any law enforcement, criminal or civil, are also denied permission to access this site at any time without a duly served warrant in accordance with the legal systems of our host state in America under the 4th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America and duly codified laws of our webhost’s State, and that of Icelandic law for our backup websites, and United Kingdom/Scots Law.
2]. Most of the photos here were taken by our own cameras, or those of our property owners who utilise our websites, and/or their estate agents, realtors and auction houses, or are open source such as Geograph, to whom we donate an appropriate fee each month. All videos that appear on this websites, and our Facebook/Twitter pages, Google+ profile, and our YouTube Channel were made by the Lighthouse Bulletin and/or the estate agents/auctioneers utilising the services of this website for the sole use of Lighthouse Bulletin, it’s subsidiary websites and our customers. All photo, video, and audio content on Lighthouse Bulletin and it’s subsidiary websites is licensed for all non-commercial reproduction with attribution to the Lighthouse Bulletin and it’s subsidiary websites EXCEPT by any law enforcement agency, Getty Images, PicScout, and Cyveillance Intelligence Center or any of their subsidiaries, agents, or assigns; or by any other corporation that has at least once filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against one or more online users of their content. Use of any original Lighthouse Bulletin and it’s subsidiary narrative, photo, audio, or video recording for any purpose, by any entity which is a plaintiff in a copyright infringement case is hereby prohibited.
3]. Getty Images, PicScout, and Cyveillance Intelligence Center their subsidiaries, agents, and assigns are explicitly prohibited from using any image or video that originated in a Lighthouse Bulletin and it’s subsidiary personal Blogs and camera for any purpose. These photos are released for non-commercial use by the general public with attribution to Lighthouse Bulletin and it’s subsidiary facilities and estate agents, auction houses and property owners who utilise the services of our website, our agents, or assigns; their use for any monetary gain by any party claiming copyright against a third party downloader from a third party web site shall be treated as a copyright violation under this Notice.
Notice concerning demands for damages originating from Getty Images, PicScout, Cyveillance Intelligence Center, or any of their subsidiaries, agents, or assigns or any other scanning robot users sending “demand notices” prior to DMCA takedown notices.
We regard Getty Images, PicScout, Cyveillance Intelligence Center, or any of their subsidiaries, agents, or assigns as entities engaged in extortion. As such, all payment demands SHALL BE REFUSED. If any threats of legal action are ever received from Getty Images, PicScout, Cyveillance Intelligence Center, their subsidiaries, agents, or assigns or any other copyright holder demanding “damages” prior to sending DMCA takedown notifications. Not only will we refuse to pay the funds you demand and we shall instead seek liquidated damages in the amount of UK GBP £15,000 and/or US$25,000 per violation of our Terms of Service concerning image scanning robots.
4]. In good faith we would COUNSEL the owners of photographs that organisations know as COPYRIGHT TROLLS can and do promise you LARGE sums of money as some form of “compensation”. Unfortunately the practice of COPYRIGHT TROLLS is having their attorney’s STRUCK OFF and as collateral damage, the OWNERS of PHOTOGRAPH COPYRIGHT, such as a £50 licence sale picture have had their HOMES subject to MORTGAGE and/or LIEN placed on them for DAMAGES by victims of COPYRIGHT TROLLS.
Here at the Lighthouse Bulletin we believe strongly that photographers SHOULD be properly remunerated. We make best efforts to pay the photographers who are makig best efforts to earn a living.
But what we mean by “4” above is that some less well aware photographers who have been taken in by the spiel of a COPYRIGHT TROLL may end up LOSING THEIR HOME for the sake of a £50 photograph.
The case law and rulings of the courts are all over the internet.
5]. If YOU as a copyright owner of a photograph are tempted to sign up with a COPYRIGHT TROLL, we beg you to take legal advice from solicitors in this field. Far better a £200 to £400 legal bill for your new lawyer’s legal advice that you fall victim of a COPYRIGHT TROLL and risk LOSING YOUR HOME because of some ambulance chasing spiv of an “attorney” has persuaded you they can get you hundreds of thousands of pounds in copyright infringement winnings.
The courts, especially those in the UK are qualitatively learned in law and have a more professional approach to ensuring fairness in legal judgement than the lottery of the Amadans who run the American legal system.
If you are tempted to sign up with a COPYRIGHT TROLL please keep an eye on future articles in the Lighthouse Bulletin as we will be detailing the legal action currently in the works *but upon which we cannot comment at this time due to Sub Judice rules. But we shall be publishing matters surrounding COPYRIGHT TROLLS in the UK once we have the all clear so to do by the Duty Sheriff (in Scotland a judge is known as a sheriff).