Copyright extortion is a way content creators and bloggers are scammed by image agencies and threatened with legal action if they do not pay thousands of dollars for alleged copyright infringement. Here's what it is and what to do if it happens to you. How do I know about this? Because it happened to me.
If you are a content creator, blogger, or author or you post any original content on your website, blog, or social media and you use images with your content you need to know about copyright extortion. This is abuse of copyright law by image providers to extort money from people who use their images without permission.
I know about this because it happened to me and I share my story as well as define this scam and tell you how you can avoid getting caught in it.