On behalf of a friend: He received a letter from Npower, claiming that he owes £1000 on a property he lived in over two years ago. This amount cannot be correct, as his name was only on the bill for two months. Please help, he looks rather sad

But the guy who owns the company is the event organiser, the very same guy who owes me money. I'm not sure if it's me being confused, since i'm waaaaay tired, but i'm reading like you might think they are two seperate entities.

No, I obviously wouldn't have been allowed to film without the permission of the guy running the show. However, the shows don't feature any kind of signs or literature stating that nobody can film the shows. Nor does it feature this on the tickets. I know that at some sporting events, this is broadcasted audibly before the show begins, but this isn't the case at these shows. I would have to give up footage despite not being paid for my services (and having not being paid for it for almost a year)? I don't work for a production company, i'm just a guy (and a former friend) who was asked to bring his equipment in to film some shows. On the promise that i'd be made good later.

Well, the guy was as I said, at one time, a friend of mine. The company he used to previously film his shows was proving too expensive, so I brought my equipment in (including sound equipment) to film the shows. Although at the time we didn't discuss payment for this (as it was fairly close to 'ruin'), I was always promised money when it was in a better state. Several times throughout the history of the company, I paid for items on the understanding that i'd be paid later, which never happened (although that is probably a seperate issue). The guys who manned the cameras were not employees of either him or me, they donated there time and were never paid for it. As I mentioned earlier, a guy in the industry told me that this combination of events gives me some IP rights on said footage. He may well be talking rubbish, but he himself has held footage to ransom and even confiscated footage under these same conditions.

As I said, i'm not overly interested in making any money from this (either from him or from selling it), i'm just curious to see if I can block him from selling footage from a time where my equipment was used and no monies were paid to anyone who owned the equipment, filmed the events and edited the DVDs were paid. To be honest, i'd rather bury the remaining footage that I have (that he doesn't) in the desert than see him make a single penny from it.

Even if all staff are freelance? I worked for the company, but you wouldn't really class anyone as an 'employee' per se. There are no contracts or anything like that.

Hello everybody. A couple of years ago, my camera equipment was used to record a number of sporting events for release locally on DVD (for a company that I no longer work for). At the time, he was a friend, so I pretty much let any payment slide, as I wanted to do was see the company grow. After a while, he screwed me for money on a number of other things. I still have the footage for several shows that haven't been released, that he claims I need to hand over as he owns the legal rights to them. A friend of mine (who works in a professional filming capacity) informed me of that I have a legal say in all footage recorded with my equipment as I was never paid for my services nor were the people manning the cameras weren't employees (or paid either). He also told me that whilst I can do nothing as regards selling the footage to a third party (as he would still have IP rights), he can't sell any shows recorded with my equipment without my say-so either. I'm not especially after money from the guy, as although it would be nice, i'd be joining a never ending queue of people he owes money to. I'm really just after some clarification of who owns any/all rights to this footage.

Hello everybody, looking for a little bit of advice here. Around March this year, I got a letter from EOS Solutions (seemingly like a few of you of here have) telling them that they were acting as agents on behalf of Otto UK/Freemans/Grattan and that I owed them £105.69. I have never been a customer of that catalogue, I did however used to be an employee of Otto UK. Obviously, there is some dispute over pay going on here, as they claimed I owed them after I walked out of my job. This is in fact totally untrue, as I had weeks of untaken holiday which would have more than covered this when I left, which I kindly reminded them of, but they ignored this and passed it on anyway. Since then, I have moved house, so I have recieved no further written correspondence from them, they do however enjoy ringing my phone half a million times a day, all calls of which go totally unanswered. I even sent them a few emails, asking them why they think I owe this money, none of which were ever replied to. In a few months, i'm planning on ending my phone contract and moving to another network (which will obviously result in a change in number). I obviously don't wish to write to them, as this will give them a return address to start sending me junk to again. So, without them having an address or phone number to contact me on, what is the worst they can do to me if I just leave it alone?