A few years ago I placed a bunch of pictures with Alamy. I just received an email from them complaining that one of my pictures of a bunch of garden gnomes “clearly shows people in it” and that I had “annotated the field “No of people” as “0″”. They warn me that “Our customers rely on the accuracy and integrity of our data and this process protects both you and Alamy from potential legal disputes.”
I am wondering whether Alamy have discovered something about garden gnomes that I don’t know. Perhaps they come alive and turn into real little people at night? How does one get a garden gnome to sign a model release? Here it is, what do you think, do the gnomes look litigious?:
Alan Capel - Massive apologies Simon
Made us laugh, i can only imagine as we worked through an enormous batch of pictures we mistook the background gmones for people.
Thankfully whilst litigation and legal shenanigins are more and more commonplace as yet these little garden dwellers haven’t threatened us with legal action!
Apologies again
Alan Capel -Head of Content -Alamy
Roy Pritchard - Maybe somebody had been imbibing too much in the HA-HA BAR
scrofts - No need to apologise Alan, it cheered up a wet and windy Tuesday night!