“nicked a load of photos off flickr”?

I’d have got a solicitor to send them a takedown, and bill for compensation.
One image, maybe I’d consider licensing.

edit: and I’d be all over the twitter/facebook page of their graphics company making sure it’s well advertised how they source “free” images.

Had a Thai travel/tour company use mine. Thankfully their website was made up entirely of remote linked images, so not only copyright infringement, but using my paid-for bandwidth to serve their website. That meant I could find some porn, and drop the image files in place, and they ended up with a rather interesting website for a while 😉
No idea if they used the images in print too, but I think they learned a lesson.

A friend did that using some headache-inducing gifs, when a company failed to pay him for work he’d done on their site. Only he could access the site at that point, so they soon coughed up. 8)

Mr Smith offers some sensible comment re ‘image rights’. In the UK, individuals generally have no ‘rights’ if they are ‘incidental’ to the scene depicted; it’s only if you then present the images in a commercial context which would be using their ‘image’ as being an identifiable individual. It’s a tricky one. But in essence; if you’re part of a crowd in a general crowd scene type shot, you have no real rights (other than those specified at any private venue). But for stuff where it’s clearly you, you’d need to have signed a model release form before the image can be used in a commercial context. In the context of journalism, you have no rights if the image is merely stating a fact. So if you’re pictured in a political protest, and you didn’t want your picture to be splashed all over the media, tough.

As for model rights; a friend’s son has his face splashed all over some billboards surrounding a new housing development. He signed the release form, not having fully read the T+Cs, and is a bit miffed, because his fee barely covered his haircut. 😆 A lesson learned there, but ‘models’ are generally exploited.