Cels Forum

In case 1 and 2, yes, they don't have the right. In
case 3 they would have the right depending of the what
are the "slight change".
Naturaly it's theory : As they are the copyright holder
in the first place and you didn't asked the permission,
they will sue you for breaking their copyrights and ask
you to remove those picture.

In the case of someone that isn't the copyright holder
who would do the above, it's differant : There would be
two cases : you against the people who took your webpages
and you against the copyright holder of the pictures.

No, sorry, I don't know how many case of breaking
copyright were prosecuted. Often it doesn't go before
the law because it's very time consuming and complex.
For example, someone took part of the website of my
previous employer and put it on another site. We menaced
to sue them (and they got their site closed) but I don't
think that it went in front of the law in the end.

A university student put the lyric from a singer songs
on a website (not the song themselve !) and was sued
for breaking copyright. (fee $50000).

There is some companies whose only activity is to find
possible break of other's people copyright. Then contact
the copyright holder and offer them to sue the person
in excange of a part of the fee...

Cheers,
Yann Stettler