Copyright Theft of Coin Images
Perhaps we should be flattered by the number of people including dealers who continually infringe our IP (Intellectual Property) rights by using our copyright images, but we do not find it amusing, and will take legal action against any copyright thieves.
Scrap Gold UK ScrapGoldUK.co.uk Image Theft
Scrap Gold UK (ScrapGoldUK.co.uk) is yet another dishonest gold coin & bullion dealer committing copyright theft by using our images without permission.
Scrap Gold UK ScrapGoldUK.co.uk Sell Coins Page
Scrap Gold UK
The Jewellery Business Centre
95 Spencer Street, Birmingham, B18 6DA, UK
Sales enquiries & support
0845 437 4469
Since gold was first coined in ancient Egypt, some 2,500 years ago, gold coins have been a form of currency in almost every civilised culture right through to modern day.
Gold coins, commonly known as sovereigns and krugerrands are made of solid 22 carat gold and are valued by their weight on the open gold market.
If you hold gold coins and want to realise thier value, now is the time to sell! With gold at it's current high, your gold coins may be worth far more than you think!
Scrap Gold pay top prices for all gold coins, including:
Krugerrands (one ounce/31.1035 grams)
Sovereigns (7.98 grams)
Half sovereigns (3.99 grams)
Canadian Maple Leaf (one ounce/31.1035 grams)
All other gold coins
Pre 1947 UK silver coins (50% silver content)
Pre 1920 UK silver coins (92.5% silver content)
All other silver coins
Platinum investment coins
Scrap Gold UK ScrapGoldUK.co.uk Home Page
Ignorance?
Although in law, ignorance is no defence, Scrap Gold UK ScrapGoldUK.co.uk has seen fit to place a copyright notice "Copyright © 2009 Scrap Gold" on all of its web pages, thereby demonstrating, or pretending a knowledge of copyright law, and also claiming ownership of Intellectual Property Rights which it does not own. We consider this to be not just "borrowing" images, or using them without the owners consent, but as image theft. All theft is dishonest. It is also illegal.
What's Wrong?
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First, and most obvious. Scrap Gold UK ScrapGoldUK.co.uk have taken and used our copyright images without our consent or prior knowledge. This is a clear breach of our Intellectual Property Rights. We call it image theft, and it is dishonest. It is also unprofessional.
If the company is an important well established bullion dealer, then surely it could afford to take its own photographs, buy them from an image library, or commission them from a professional photographer. Instead it appear to have chosen to steal our pictures. Apart from exposing them as cheapskates, it is unfair competition.
- Scrap Gold UK ScrapGoldUK.co.uk pretends to have some degree of expertise about gold coins and investment, which we feel it may not possess.
Double Dealing
We note that Scrap Gold UK have a "sister" company and website Gold Bullion Co (thegoldbullion.co.uk), which also steals our photographs
Our Advice
Avoid this dishonest web site, along with any others like it.
customers its way in preference, and to the cost of, real, expert, and genuine, professional coin dealers.
Other Copyright Abuse
Other Web Sites
All comments about copyright also cover content of all our other websites including, but not limited to:-
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Scrap Gold UK ScrapGoldUK.co.uk Coins Page Including a 1958 Sovereign Image Stolen from Us.
Our Images
Our Images
Our 1958 Gold Sovereign Reverse Photograph
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