Lawsuit

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This is email update from my friend Chris Fallows - the man with the best White Shark images in the world.
You can see his images at Great white shark photos and shark posters|Great white shark diving

You would have seen him on the discovery channel with AIR JAWS 1 & 2

It shows you that not just your friends steal images for their facebook accounts

ASSOCIATED PRESS LAWSUIT
Many of you will be aware that we have been fighting a 5 year long lawsuit against media giants Associated Press International and Naspers ( South Africa) over the extensive copyright infringement of our most valuable breaching shark image that is well known worldwide.
We were due to go to court at the end of October after the case got "postponed due to technicalities" last year and amidst final preparations AP approached us with an out of court settlement. After weighing up the risk and cost involved in going to court as well as the stress it places you under we have accepted their offer which is a landmark image copyright settlement in South Africa.
We wanted to thank all of you that helped so much in informing us of the over 125 mis-uses that we managed to attribute to AP and also to the support so many of you showed to us. It was this support that really motivated us to hang in there and stand up for what was right.
In the future we would very much like to help other photographers with any advice on our experience. So many large corporations abuse the right of photographers and it is good to know that sometimes the little guys can win!