Who owns your photos once they're online?

[Holdfast]

They didn't even properly resize the image...

Yeah, you're right, I didn't realise that. Clearly, a very professional operation all round....

 

[An Officer]

Another famous TBBSer among us!

Similar thing happened to my cousin on Facebook - this person went much further though, and actually stole her identity, creating a new account, with all of her pictures directly lifted from her page, masquerading as her essentially! She alerted Facebook, and they cleared it up, thankfully. A lot of sickos out there.

 

[Tim]

Holdfast, You should not alert them to the fact they are using your picture and instead go see a solicitor and see if you can sue them for some money.

I know I would.

It crossed my mind, but frankly I doubt I'd get much beyond an apology, a removal of my picture, legal fees, and maybe a hundred bucks or so as compensation. Hardly worth the hassle.

It just made me realise that I have no idea what the law actually says about this.

Exactly. If you do not wish the picture to be used in such a way, your best bet is to ask the webmaster politely to take it down, but it sounds like your ego has been stroked too much.

I would agree with the others that you still technically own the picture, but proving so in a court of law would be challenging, if it were to come to that.

 

[Drogo]

In today's Internet climate, once it's on the net, it belongs to everyone.

Just like the common perception about pirated media files.

 

[Amaris]

Nope. Most of my personal pictures are embedded with data by myself should someone ever steal them. If I don't care, though, I don't bother. But very personal pictures that I put up (which is rare), are embedded with data so I can verify them later.


J.

 

[DiSiLLUSiON]

Most of my personal pictures are embedded with data by myself should someone ever steal them.

A little bit of cropping, resizing and re-encoding should take care of that.