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So, you build on a BY-NC work and register your copyright. You license your new work also BY-NC. Someone violates the copyright on your work. You sue. You are entitled to statutory damages right? You collect. Are you now guiilty of violating the NC licneses of the works yours built upon?

"A currently ongoing ransomware campaign is using a novel approach to extort money from end users whose PCs have been locked down. By pretending to be the fake ICPP Foundation (icpp-online.com), the ransomware locks down the user's desktop issuing a "Copyright violation: copyrighted content detected" message, which lists torrent files found on the infected PC, and forces the user to pay $400 for the copyright holder's fine, emphasizing on the fact that "the maximum penalties can be five years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines. More details on the campaign: ..."

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Vor einem Jahr hat die mittlerweile schon wieder eingestellte Zeitschrift "Young" des Burda Verlags NEUN meiner Stil in Berlin Bilder für eine siebenseitige Story verwendet. Ohne Erlaubnis. Ohne Credit. Ohne Honorar. In mehreren Telefonaten wurde ich erst gefragt, wie ich das denn bitte mitbekommen hätte. Dann wurde mir gesagt, man hätte ja versucht, mich zu erreichen. Und zur Rechnung verlangten sie eine eidesstattliche Erklärung. Meine Honorarforderung orientierte sich im übrigen an meinen üblichen Preisen, die auch andere Verlage wie Condé Nast, Jahreszeiten oder der Bauer Verlag zahlen und an den üblichen Honorartabellen der MFM und der VG Bild. Plus dem üblichen 100 % Aufschlag für den fehlenden Credit.