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The problem with this is is that the Police and Trading standards will only investigate cases where the victim of the crime is a wealthy multi national corporation.

Surely the worst case of criminal copyright infringement is where one creator takes the work of another creator and pretends that it is his to defraud their own customers. Unfortunately in these cases both Police and Trading Standards refuse to investigate.

This is now a regular occurrence with numerous cases where poor Quality wedding photographers copy the work of good quality Wedding photographers. The original photographer can no longer compete and looses his business and the customers receive terrible snaps of their wedding.

I have myself reported several cases to Police and Trading standards who simply refuse to investigate, despite being provided with all the evidence needed for a prosecution and the identity and location of the offender. In one case the offender hat taken more than 20 of my images, removed my name and was presenting entire galleries of my work as his.

The results from Police and Trading Standards: they refused to investigate. The most they do is write a letter asking the offender not to offend.

Compare that to the action take if somebody dares to infringe the rights of say Apple, then the authorities swing in like its a Terrorist operation. Vas full of Police and Trading Standards arrive armed with search Warrants and people are prosecuted, yet the value of the infringed products is often less than the Wedding photographer who had his photographs infringed.

and then they wonder why copyright law is brought into disrepute.