Photo Theft & Image Copyright
Every photograph on this website was taken by, and belongs to, Kevin Foulds. This page is a clear, formal notice about their ownership and use. Please read it before using any image from this site.
The short version
- Every image on Scottish Outposts is © Kevin Foulds. All rights reserved.
- You may not use any of them — anywhere — without our written permission.
- Unauthorised use is charged at £500 per image, and we pursue it.
- We can, and do, trace stolen images.
Who owns these images
All photographs published on scottishoutposts.co.uk are the original works of Kevin Foulds. They are protected by copyright automatically, from the moment each photograph is taken, under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 — no registration or copyright symbol is required for that protection to exist. Kevin Foulds is the sole copyright owner of every image on this site.
What you may not do
Without our express written permission, you may not copy, download, screenshot, save, reproduce, republish, distribute, sell, or otherwise use any image from this site — in whole or in part, edited, cropped, filtered or re-saved — on any website, blog, social media account, online marketplace or listing, advertisement, print, or product.
Want to use an image? Just ask
We’re reasonable, and we’re happy to license our images for fair use. If you’d like to use a photograph, get in touch first: contactus@scottishoutposts.co.uk. A quick email costs you nothing — using an image without asking will cost you a great deal more.
⚠️ Unauthorised use — our fee is £500 per image
If we find one of our images used anywhere without a licence from us, our fee for that unauthorised use is £500 per image, per use, plus the reasonable costs of tracing and recovering the debt. We invoice on discovery and pursue payment, escalating to a formal legal claim if it is not paid. This is our standard licensing/damages rate for infringement, set out here in advance so there can be no argument that you didn’t know.
The law (United Kingdom)
Under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, the copyright owner holds the exclusive right to copy the work and to communicate it to the public. Using a copyright photograph without the owner’s permission is copyright infringement. As the rights holder we are entitled to:
- damages for the infringement (or an account of the profits you made from it);
- an injunction requiring you to stop and to take the image down, and delivery-up of infringing copies;
- recovery of our reasonable costs.
In serious, commercial cases, copyright infringement can also be a criminal offence under section 107 of the Act. (This page is general information, not legal advice.)
How we trace stolen images — be aware
We monitor for theft, and it is easier to catch than most people think. Every image we publish:
- carries embedded copyright metadata (the owner’s name, our contact address and a rights statement are written into the image file itself);
- is catalogued with its original publication date on this site — dated proof of prior ownership;
- can be found by reverse-image search (Google Images, TinEye, Bing), which we run regularly against our catalogue.
When we find an image being used without permission, we record dated evidence, issue takedown notices to the website’s host and platform, and trace the site’s owner through public hosting and domain (WHOIS) records. Removing our credit or stripping the metadata does not remove our ownership — and interfering with rights-management information is itself unlawful.
In force
This notice is confirmed and in force as of 14 August 2026, and applies to every image published on scottishoutposts.co.uk, past and future.
Licensing enquiries: contactus@scottishoutposts.co.uk