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"Do the warning, legal, Sydney university footer messages etc, actually mean anything or even acknowledged. Has anyone actually taken any legal action over stolen photos? "
They mean nothing.
It is possible to take legal action over stolen photos, but a warning won't help your case. |
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That's what I thought, but I keep seeing them. There was one today that threatened legal action if their pictures were "stolen". I could understand if this was Playboy, Penthouse etc, but if you upload photos to a site do you still legally own them? Would a solicitor even consider taking action? I read that Facebook & Instagram have ownership of any uploads. |
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"That's what I thought, but I keep seeing them. There was one today that threatened legal action if their pictures were "stolen". I could understand if this was Playboy, Penthouse etc, but if you upload photos to a site do you still legally own them? Would a solicitor even consider taking action? I read that Facebook & Instagram have ownership of any uploads."
Yes you do legally own them.
Facebook and Instragram make you agree to give them a worldwide, royalty free license to distribute your images - which is what they require to show them to people around the world. They do not own your pictures.
You retain all copyright whenever you upload to websites like this.
There are two ways you could basicallt prosecute someone for using your images. The first - if you were a commercial photographer and someone used your images without permission, you could send them an invoice and then take them to small claims court to make them pay the invoice (I've done this several times).
The other option is under the new Revenge Porn laws. There have been no test cases on this yet I believe. |
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"That's what I thought, but I keep seeing them. There was one today that threatened legal action if their pictures were "stolen". I could understand if this was Playboy, Penthouse etc, but if you upload photos to a site do you still legally own them? Would a solicitor even consider taking action? I read that Facebook & Instagram have ownership of any uploads.
Yes you do legally own them.
Facebook and Instragram make you agree to give them a worldwide, royalty free license to distribute your images - which is what they require to show them to people around the world. They do not own your pictures.
You retain all copyright whenever you upload to websites like this.
There are two ways you could basicallt prosecute someone for using your images. The first - if you were a commercial photographer and someone used your images without permission, you could send them an invoice and then take them to small claims court to make them pay the invoice (I've done this several times).
The other option is under the new Revenge Porn laws. There have been no test cases on this yet I believe."
And to add to that the added problem of actually knowing who has used your photo's, for example, on another site someone keeps using my photo's, i know their name and address, but unfortunately i can do nothing because i cannot trace their IP address because they use TOR servers (and yes i have had the police come back to be after 2 years of trying and tell me they can't trace the IP address) which basically means wasting space on a profile to warn sydney university or anyone else is just a pointless exercise. |
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