How for you know someone in the staff didn’t buy it and display it there?
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This is a golden opportunity to market your work to the cruise company. No lawyers, no threats; set up a meeting with a company representative, politely explain the situation, and present your portfolio. You have nothing to lose and much to gain.
You are a Belgian we dont have copyright law in Belgium. We have auteursrecht of you are a member sabam will help you.
Everyone is pointing fingers at the cruise line. Wrong. Have to determine who sold it to the cruise line, that person will be your pirate.
Typically on Instagram, I see artist talk about art theft. How they typically deal with it is:
Contacting the seller/distributor of that art requesting it be taken down. However I don’t recall seeing how successful the approach is and their art is frequently resold somewhere else. A big offended I remember is redbubble
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Thanks everyone for your advice! Also for the funny comments.
I realized I wasn't really into contacting a lawyer and going through the whole jurisdiction.. Earlier this year, one of my clients filed for bankrupcy and they owned me a big deal of money. It's been taken care of now, but the liquidation process was painfully slow and the legal stuff took a lot from me mentally.
I was able to get in touch with the cruise company and kindly told them about my print on one of their walls. They told me they bought it from a company who did all of the decoration on the ship. They even informed there's not 1, but 3 prints of my work on their walls. They gave me the company's contact and I sent the company an email. The company told me they bought the images from a Dutch freelance graphics designer. They saw my work in a magazine and contacted the magazine's designer.
Now is the malicious part. The designer they bought my images from is someone who I sold a license to publish my work in the magazine the designer worked for. I remembered him and it was a beautiful publication. There was no excuse sellling my high res files to another company so I knew right away that what he did is illegal. Eventually I called a lawyer to talk this through. It's a much easier process sueing this designer, than a cruise company, so he advised me going ahead with sueing this person.