Screenshot of a Press Gazette article by Dominic Ponsford, published on 13 November 2013, titled “News agencies secure 50,000 Euro payout over image theft bid to tame ‘Wild West’ of online copyright theft”. The article reports that a Croatian website paid more than EUR 50,000 after using photographs owned by ten independent press agencies, all members of the National Association of Press Agencies, without permission. The piece quotes Michael Leidig, then NAPA vice-chairman, saying the case had been made an example to show that courts recognised agency copyright and that online publishers could not simply take material and assume there would be no consequence. Its significance for the wider BuzzFeed/CEN narrative is that it documents a long-running fight by independent agencies against the “Wild West” culture of digital copying, years before BuzzFeed’s attack on CEN. The record supports the Proof of Work argument by showing that CEN and allied agencies were already challenging the idea that online publishers could benefit from agency labour, pictures and reporting without payment, attribution or accountability.