These cases are usually settled for a few hundred Euro, which is what a court would set anyway. As there have been quite a few trials of this kind the sums are

These cases are usually settled for a few hundred Euro, which is what a court would set anyway. As there have been quite a few trials of this kind the sums are pretty well established. That is well known in the German blogging scene. For example, "Marions Kochbuch" is a website with cooking photos that some people say only exists to serve notices to unsuspecting bloggers that use their photos. Every few weeks a new case of someone who didn't know makes rounds in the German-speaking internet scence. Personally I would use US government photos on my website (but not random other photos found on the web). But I know that I'd take a small risk with that. The US lawmakers specifically wanted to preserve rights abroad, who knows whether the government will actually start to enforce it: > The prohibition on copyright protection for United States Government works is not intended to have any effect on protection of these works abroad. Works of the governments of most other countries are copyrighted. There are no valid policy reasons for denying such protection to United States Government works in foreign countries, or for precluding the Government from making licenses for the use of its works abroad. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Copyright_Law_Revision_(House_Report_No._94-1476) http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Copyright_Law_Revision_(House_...