High res pic I took six years ago: 
The card reads: Warmest greetings from the DuMont publishing house. Have fun reading it!
The cover reads: Help, my cat is broken! 200 cats going beyond their limits
NGL if they used your photo on their cover, sending you a few copies of the book is the least they can do.
Since it’s a product being sold, and you’re the copyright holder of the image. That means they should not have been using that image without your explicit permission…
technically you could sue them, and I bet them sending you copies is their way of trying to buy out the fuckup so they don’t get sued. In theory you could demand a set percentage of all sales…
I actually asked them per email to send me the copies. While I get your point, I personally don’t hold any grudge at all, as long as people don’t claim my pics as their own. Which they don’t. It’s the nature of the internet that such pics spread all over the world without anybody at the end of the chain knowing the source. It’s just a silly little book and I doubt they’ll be making any serious money on this.
Still it’s shameful that people think they can profit off of others’ properties.
While I share that sentiment, it always baffles me how people seemingly selectively take an issue with it for physical media. If someone reposted that picture to Facebook, Instagram or Reddit, those platforms profit from someone else’s properties and it happens every day. Yet when it happens as a book, it’s far more likely to read comments like yours
An old classic…steal it now, ask for forgiveness later. Funny pic though.
I’ll have you know your picture is one of my favorite cat memes. Great to see you in these parts of the Internet.
two copies - nice, one for each cat!
… two cats? Oh.
I do not speak German, nor have I ever understood German
But why do I feel like that book is titled '“help my cat is dead”
Where did you put the photo for it to be used on a book?
Not dead just broken.
I also thought that, but then I remembered my Latin:
Kaput comes from the Latin for “head”, caput. Knowing that but not knowing any German, my guess is because it looks like the cat’s head is in the basket instead of on its neck :)
Kaputt means “broken” or “non-functional” in German, like: Die Tasse von meiner Oma ist mir heruntergefallen. Nun ist sie kaputt. (I dropped my granny’s cup. It’s broken now.)
Here, it looks like the head of the cat is broken off.Nice, double meaning :)
Probably not intentional
I just added a translation of everything. I put it on reddit back then and it went viral, especially the meme somebody made out of it with the caption: “French
aristocracyroyalty in the 18th century” and they posted it on r/dankmemes (can’t find the post without an account) plus someone else crossposted to r/historymemes. As usual, my r/aww post got 10k points, while both others got about 40k upvotes. Boredpanda asked me for an interview a few weeks thereafter: https://www.boredpanda.com/optical-illusion-cat-without-head-i-spin-bubbles/Edit: Links added
It’s funny, I remember when this picture blew up!
