I have a couple of experiences of this.
A certain UK MV parts supplier started using a picture of my Ferret on their website front page. I asked them to remove the VRN or give me credit. Its still there but modified now.
The other incident was when a photojournalist friend picked up a certain intel companies freebie disk of images at a show. He found his own images on the disk which were sold to them as "one time usage" at the time of submission in an article they paid for and published. When he challenged them they said "sue us", we will drag it out for years, we are bigger than you.
The same company bought some of my pictures, again for "one time use" and they popped up being used by them in other material. I started pegging invoices at them but being transatlantic from here it was awkward as they wouldn't pay and played out the same line to me.
Hence I gave up doing a lot of photojournalism work.
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