Our local Charity received an email from fairlicensing@alamy demanding payment for unlicensed image use on our website. The associated screenshot showed images which are not, and have never been, used on our website nor elsewhere. There is, deliberately, no way of contacting the email sender.Is this a scam? As we cannot contact any part of Alamy other than Sales, should we just ignore this?14 JULY UPDATE Things have become a little clearer. Alamy objected to our Charity website posting a link to a July 2017 Guardian newspaper article...an article which included an image which had not been licensed for us to use (although presumably had been for the Guardian). If a tenth of the 27,000 UK parks and open spaces had posted this very relevant link, as they might well have done, Alamy would be seeking over £1 million in unlicensed use fees...21 JULY UPDATE nearly three weeks after first emailing all available (of not many) Alamy email addresses about this issue we received no response. Nor to a subsequent request seeking "fair use" permission to post another image on our Charity's FB site's 1,200 followers.
