Well 1, yeah gotta get a lawyer and contact the company. But also, don’t take it all bad, be honored that a big company used your work! Lol! Maybe, instead of just getting it taken down, get a deal that they pay you for both illegally printing it, but Aldo so they can still use it…?

How for you know someone in the staff didn’t buy it and display it there?

Thanks everyone for your advice! Also for the funny comments.

I realized I wasn’t really into contacting a lawyer and going through the whole jurisdiction… Earlier this year, one of my clients filed for bankrupcy and they owned me a big deal of money. It’s been taken care of now, but the liquidation process was painfully slow and the legal stuff took a lot from me mentally.

I was able to get in touch with the cruise company and kindly told them about my print on one of their walls. They told me they bought it from a company who did all of the decoration on the ship. They even informed there’s not 1, but 3 prints of my work on their walls. They gave me the company’s contact and I sent the company an email. The company told me they bought the images from a Dutch freelance graphics designer. They saw my work in a magazine and contacted the magazine’s designer.

Now is the malicious part. The designer they bought my images from is someone who I sold a license to publish my work in the magazine the designer worked for. I remembered him and it was a beautiful publication. There was no excuse sellling my high res files to another company so I knew right away that what he did is illegal. Eventually I called a lawyer to talk this through. It’s a much easier process sueing this designer, than a cruise company, so he advised me going ahead with sueing this person.