"Don't Post My Kid's Photo's Online!"

I ran across this while looking up my podcast list & thought I would share it here... It's worth a listen if you post pictures of kids on your websites...

www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/manners_...et_and_the_law_.html

Thanks for sharing.

I think this will get her kids excluded from all invitations. Even many of these little kids have cell phones and can post their photos . Do we need to have to post signs at each event - either telling these people photos will be posted or telling then to go away.

The attorney gave a very clear opinion of the aspects of privacy and the law. Can you imagine a family group snapshot with 50 people and you would have to get permission from all 50.

Baydream wrote: I think this will get her kids excluded from all invitations. Even many of these little kids have cell phones and can post their photos . Do we need to have to post signs at each event - either telling these people photos will be posted or telling then to go away.

The attorney gave a very clear opinion of the aspects of privacy and the law. Can you imagine a family group snapshot with 50 people and you would have to get permission from all 50.

It will only take one court decision to require that......

effron wrote:

Baydream wrote: I think this will get her kids excluded from all invitations. Even many of these little kids have cell phones and can post their photos . Do we need to have to post signs at each event - either telling these people photos will be posted or telling then to go away.

The attorney gave a very clear opinion of the aspects of privacy and the law. Can you imagine a family group snapshot with 50 people and you would have to get permission from all 50.

It will only take one court decision the require that......

Yeah, negatively.

It just seems like common courtesy to me. Treat others like I want to be treated. I would hope anyone would respect my wishes regarding photos of my children, so I will respect theirs.

On the other hand I think most folks invited to our parties understand that I will be taking photos.

Dori wrote:

effron wrote:

Baydream wrote: I think this will get her kids excluded from all invitations. Even many of these little kids have cell phones and can post their photos . Do we need to have to post signs at each event - either telling these people photos will be posted or telling then to go away.

The attorney gave a very clear opinion of the aspects of privacy and the law. Can you imagine a family group snapshot with 50 people and you would have to get permission from all 50.

It will only take one court decision the require that......

Yeah, negatively.

Always! Eventually enough people will want restrictions on photography in public, meanwhile not saying a thing about municipalities that are using cameras everywhere. I even hear one man on C-Spans Washington Journal saying it should be against the law for photogs to shoot on the streets. I think the reason for this is the constant drum beat of paranoia that the media puts out about, terrorists, pedos and the such. I weep for the future of our society.

I so agree, Joves....
Subject that hits close to home for me, last year, my husbands' daughter begged me to take photos of her newborn, and send them to her...
when I got home, so she could have professional photos of the baby for "free"... Of course, I complied, as I do for ALL my kids...I shot
over 500 pictures, and color corrected/cropped each and every one of them for her, before sending them to her... Well....
Naturally, my husband posted some to his facebook page to show the family our newest member... and I got called on the carpet
by her, called every hame in the book,and threatened to sue me, personally... for "going against her wishes"... which were NOt made known to neither her father nor I
Until AFTER we posted them to show our family how happy and proud we were of our newest grandchild...So now, when I shoot pictures of my kids/grandkids, I make SURE
they know I WILL be posting, and if they do NOT wish for me to do so, then to take them out of the picture, directly....and if I am shooting a NON family member and/or their
child, I make them sign a release to avoid ANY misunderstandings... (Thank goodness the rest of our kids
are not like that, because I LOVE putting pics of the grandkids up for my fam/friends to see) But I can see where this could really be an issue,
and cause a very big problem for photographers, EVERYwhere... Hopefully that will NOT happen... (fingerscrossed)

Joves wrote: Always! Eventually enough people will want restrictions on photography in public, meanwhile not saying a thing about municipalities that are using cameras everywhere. I even hear one man on C-Spans Washington Journal saying it should be against the law for photogs to shoot on the streets. I think the reason for this is the constant drum beat of paranoia that the media puts out about, terrorists, pedos and the such. I weep for the future of our society.

Too late for that. Most Americans are already carrying a pocket HD video recorder. Any of us can set up multi-camera surveillance systems for our homes and businesses for well under $100. The future will be recorded thoroughly, and everyone will get used to it and participate, or hide in their homes with the curtains drawn.

dragonflies8888 wrote: ...last year, my husbands' daughter begged me to take photos of her newborn, and send them to her... Naturally, my husband posted some to his facebook page to show the family our newest member... and I got called on the carpet by her, called every hame in the book,and threatened to sue me, personally... for "going against her wishes"... which were NOt made known to neither her father nor I Until AFTER we posted them to show our family how happy and proud we were of our newest grandchild...

Well that is completely unreasonable and inappropriate behavior from normal adults, particularly from family. We will always have to deal with nuts, but remember that the nutty behavior has more to do with what's going on in their heads than the actions of others.

I had a picture of my nephew which I edited to make it (IMHO) pretty darned awesome.

Anyway, I sent it to my mum to have a look and my mum showed it to my sister-in-law. She said: "I hope he isn't using this picture without permission on his website."

After this was relayed to me I got pretty mad. Despite me not actually using it for that purpose (this was HER assumption) I felt mad because I took the photo and I edited it and therefore I (felt) I had the right to use it as I saw fit... of course legally I was probably wrong, but that's the way I felt.

You need photo releases for commercial use but not for editorial usage. If the subjects are under 18 I think you need permission to use their photos for any purpose. Schools and youth sports teams etc. have to have permission for photos to be taken during the games/events.

We've already been handling this in the schools, although not related to online use particularly. We sometimes had children whose parents didn't sign photo releases and we had to work out a way at school events to make sure students were not photographed who did not have photo releases on file.

Seems like a similar thing would need to be done at a picnic or birthday party, making sure that people taking photos know ahead of time not to use the ones publicly that are of children whose parents don't want their child's photo used. I don't think people are used to thinking about it ahead of time that they need to ask if photos will be taken and if they will be posted online; it used to be that if someone was taking pictures it was just for their own personal use.

I think the problem with Facebook now it that the photos all seem to be public instead of just for friends. I get photos on my news feed that are people I don't know; if a friend comments on a photo it ends up posted on my page. So I can see why people would not want their kid's pictures posted.

The world is full of people who want to have their photograph taken. There is no need to waste time with those who don't.