We received the following private message from an anonymous guest at this site:

As someone who has spent years in the UK courts pursuing theft of my copyright I came across your site by accident while Googling - at last and thank God I thought. Then when I saw the last posts were so old I was upset to see that other creators don't want to name and shame. I give my agents months and months to pursue copyright infringers - and it would be nice to think that if all fails at least they could be named and shamed.

We can only agree. We try to flag up the problem publishers and contracts but can't catch them all. We don't know everything that's going on, nor is there the time to write up all of them on a part-time, no-pay basis. Of course it would be better and more useful if misbehaving publishers were invariably exposed.

We all know infringement and rights grabs are a way of life in UK. Why give them an easy time when you can alert future victims? If you have had bad experiences, please report them here. Just avoid libelling anyone it and keep it truthful and accurate.

You don't even have to register as a user here in order to post in the forums, you can whistle-blow anonymously by posting as a guest. Doing so just means your contribution is held in a moderation queue until an admin can check it. We have to do that in order to keep out the spammers. Registering avoids this delay. So please name and shame in the relevant forum and help make this site an invaluable resource for the self-defence of photographers.