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  1. <p>Thank you, Dieter. According to my contract with Picture Press the cut should be 50% respectively. Your hint: "no advertising" included, is very helpful. I think that`s an important point that makes the difference.</p>
  2. <p>Thank you, Jeff. If eventually necessary, will I really need an Austrian lawyer?<br> Franz</p>
  3. <p>Dear forum members, <br> I was very delighted when a month ago I stumbled upon my <a href="http://www.xdreamphoto.com/works.html">image </a>in an internet magazine that was used by Microsoft for their current Windows 10 campaign. This image was used in Microsoft`s central presentation of their Windows 10, albeit only in a short sequence, and consequently for <a href="http://news.microsoft.com/windows10story/">ads</a>, <a href=" and <a href="/bboard/">screenshot </a>tutorials. The image was also made available for <a href="http://www.windows10update.com/2014/12/download-windows-10-build-9901-wallpapers/">download</a> on many platforms.<br> The image, a snow covered Austrian landscape in the county of Salzburg, was delivered to Microsoft via Getty Images as a rights protected image as all of my images are. My European Stock Agency, Picture Press, is a "quality agency" that gets my images on an "exclusive" basis.<br> So far so good. When I asked my stock library in Europe, that had delivered the image to Getty Images, about the kind of licence I was told that this had been a consumer download:<br> Usage: Product design - Software and video games<br />Start date: Jan 14, 2015<br />Territory: World<br />Industry: Computer Software<br />Exclusivity: No Exclusivity<br />Delivery Method: Customer Download<br />Release Information: No release required<br> The image made its way around the world as you easily will find out if you make a simple google search, MS Austria even congratulated me for the "shot of my life".<br> Today I got the account from my stock agency: 43 €, about 50 USD.<br> That made me speechless: MS had licenced an image for product design and then started a viral campaign using my image as the central image. I can only hope that this was a mistake by MS and not intended.<br> What do you think, what should I do? Qualified advice very welcome.<br> Finally the link to the original image and the MS version of that images on my <a href="http://www.xdreamphoto.com/works.html">website</a><br> Regards<br> Franz</p>
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    I was flipping through flipboard when I saw this image and immediately realised that the background image in the Windows 10 advertisement was mine. Yuppeehe!
  5. This is the unaltered image used as background image in Windows 10. A great honor for me! Thank you, Microsoft!
  6. Artist: Franz Pritz; Exposure Date: 2013:01:13 10:25:26; ImageDescription: Blick von den Bergen südlich von Abtenau aus der sogenannten Osterhorngruppe kurz nach Sonnenaufgang über das Lammertal und das Abtenauer Becken nach Süden zur Dachsteingruppe mit dem Gosaukamm links und dem Tennengebirge rechts; Copyright: Copyright © 2013 F. Pritz; Make: Canon; Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II; ExposureTime: 1/1250 s; FNumber: f/8; ISOSpeedRatings: 200; ExposureProgram: Manual; ExposureBiasValue: 0/1; MeteringMode: Pattern; Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode; FocalLength: 24 mm; Software: Adobe Photoshop CC (Windows);
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    Artist: XYZ; Exposure Date: 2015:01:31 21:39:40;
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