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By *rishmocha2 OP   Couple
over a year ago

Beds

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?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's a meaningless waste of profile space. The kind of people who steal pics are not likely to be the kind of people who take notice of legalities.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By *rishmocha2 OP   Couple
over a year ago

Beds

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you have £10k spare just to instruct specialist lawyers and prepare in advance of court....sure go ahead

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By *rishmocha2 OP   Couple
over a year ago

Beds

Revenge Porn?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Revenge Porn? "

If you Google it, the top link is to a Government factsheet.

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By *now white1000Woman
over a year ago

York


"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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