If someone takes a picture of you and them, and you're in the picture, do you have any rights to it at all?
Me and my ex-girlfriend have a bunch of pictures that she took. However, we were both in the pictures and she is making the claim that I cannot use them because she is in them and for the fact she took them. Now, I believe I should have at least some rights to use the pictures due to me being in them, what does everyone else think?
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by law you have absolutely no rights they are hers being as she took them and you consented to it sorry!
first tell your girl frind to grow up. you dont have rights to them...however your ex really needs to get a grip. sorry bout the pix
crop her out and everyone will be happy. clone stamp her face away or something (kidding!)
jeez! why's everyone so picky about photos? it depends what you're using them for though. if you're trying to get a pic of you and her in playboy magazine or something, she would have a right to complain. if you're just keeping them to admire and show off to friends, you should have every right to do so. if you're selling them for money, she could argue.
i think it all depends on the magnitude of the situation in which you are using the photographs.
i'd like to see her pay the court costs because you scanned a picture with her in it. there are lots of gray areas.
There are actually lawyers who would tell you that everyone has a copyright to themself, and any photograph taken of them without their permission is a violation of that copyright.
However, if the recent case where J.K. Rowling lost the court case where she sued a newspaper for taking a photo of her and her kid doing some shopping as violation of privacy is anything to go by, you don't really have any right to your face, and the photographer is the one with rights to any photographs taken. If it was the other way round, and you were the ones who actually took the photograhs, you could then use them, and anyone who tries to copy it/use it without your permission is violating your copyright. She doesn't have the right over them because she's in them, if not you too could claim the same, but has rights over it because she took them. Hence I'm sorry to say that you probably have no right over them, unless you took them.
She was the one that took them, the photographer is the one with the rights. Since she was your girlfriend, she could at least make you a copy. I think she is being selfish, but there really is not any thing you can do.
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