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Ownership of wedding photos

I just learned that one of the girls who helped my wedding coordinator at the last minute posted my wedding pix on her website and listed my wedding as her own creation.

She also forwarded them to a magazine and she is listed as the coordinator (I saw them online on this magazines site) and they are floating around the web.

I have all the rights to my wedding photos. My coordinator didn?t even post them on her site because she knows I have the rights and that I wanted them private.

Can this person do this? 

Re: Ownership of wedding photos

  • How did this person get your wedding photos? No if she doesn't have rights to use them (you would have signed something giving them rights, or  you would have signed something giving your photographer rights, which then maybe your photographer passed them on for some reason?) she shouldn't be posting them.

    I would contact that magazine and ask for them to be removed as she did not have permissions to share the photos.

  • NO! if you can show proof you have the rights lawyer up NOW!  You want to send a letter certified to this person to STOP.  This happens more than you know.  Don't contact anyone, lawyer up and have him do it!  If they don't sue for damages!  People need to learn that just because you have a photo or found one on the web, it's not yours.  I find myself explaining this to 52 year old ad agency people all the time!  Nothing pisses me off more.
  • The only way I can think of how this person got them was thorugh my coordinator.  The photographer gave me the rights in the agreement.  My coordinator picked them up for me and held them until we came back from our honeymoon.  I"m thinking the coordinator may have shown the girls who helped her??   But even my coordinator knew I wanted them private and did not post them on her "Wedding Coordinator" website.  

     

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    NO! if you can show proof you have the rights lawyer up NOW!  You want to send a letter certified to this person to STOP.  This happens more than you know.  Don't contact anyone, lawyer up and have him do it!  If they don't sue for damages!  People need to learn that just because you have a photo or found one on the web, it's not yours.  I find myself explaining this to 52 year old ad agency people all the time!  Nothing pisses me off more.

    Wow, this is good.  My pix are on google, pintrest, wedding sites...  and they are all linked to this persons site. I'm so mad.

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    NO! if you can show proof you have the rights lawyer up NOW!  You want to send a letter certified to this person to STOP.  This happens more than you know.  Don't contact anyone, lawyer up and have him do it!  If they don't sue for damages!  People need to learn that just because you have a photo or found one on the web, it's not yours.  I find myself explaining this to 52 year old ad agency people all the time!  Nothing pisses me off more.

    Fantastic advice! And it's so true! This person has no legal rights to your photos. 

  • I would ask her nicely to take them down. I bet she doesnt even know you wanted them private and she didnt think anything of it. Especially if its like photography and she was one of the photographers. Although this is wrong, she probably wont have a problem taking them down. 

     And even if she COULD post them, you dont want them posted, so just send her an email or give her a call. I think its a bit rude to throw in lawyers and whatnot..I mean unless you have that big of a problem. 

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  • OMG. So not cool. This person helped your coordinator at the last second and is taking credit for it?  Does your coordinator know?   (BTW, your coordinator was nice not to post them on her own site because they are usually used for marketing and promotions.)

    And lets say this "helper" did get copies from your coordinator, it should have been clear that they are private according to your photographers contract agreement. 

    Like the PP, send a kind certified letter to this person and a copy to your coordinator.  If it doesn't change, lawyer up. 

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