Surge in copyright infringement claims hit UK businesses

Small business owners are being urged to check the images they are using on their websites in order to guard against costly copyright claims.

The Forum of Private Business issued the warning after a noticeable increase in calls to its member helpline on the issue in recent months, with several businesses receiving letters demanding payment for unwittingly using copyrighted pictures.

Often, small businesses entrust web design companies to source and upload images to their websites, on the presumption that the design company will have secured permission to use them.

However, all too often this is not the case and liability for any copyright infringement lies with the small business, rather than the design company which developed the website.

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