AIBU or is this cheeky?

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I took some photos at a get together at the weekend. I put them on FB and tagged the people in it. One of the tagged people has used one of my pics as their profile pic without so much as a "like" or asking permission on mine. Lots of their friends are now commenting on their picture that it's a "brilliant shot" and their silence (rather than crediting me) is making people think they took it! This hasn't happened to me before (keen amateur photographer). Am I really going to have to water mark all my photos?!

This is one of those things that the law cannot keep up with.

Yes, OPs picture is hers She is the originator and retains rights to it. It really is not OK to take an image and use it as you see fit. That is why businesses use watermarks etc to protect their rights.

But this is the era of social media... everything is free... until it is yours and you don't want your thing to be used by all and sundry!

Me? I use watermarks and sign images I don't want people to have free access to. But that is because I use them for my business.... check out Etsy and other online retailers. See who uses watermarks and who does not. You can see the dichotomy sellers are faced with... look friendly or protect your livelihood?

YABU and frankly a bit weird.

I must regularly piss of my friends. I always use their photos of me as my profile picture. Why wouldn't I? They take better photos and manage to upload them, something I never get round to until about 3 years after the event!

Did you ask permission to post a picture of them online or tag them? Because it seems like the same thing to me - you shared a picture you had taken of them online and they are sharing it too, via their profile. Unless they are claiming that they took it themselves, then I can't see the problem. Nothing cheeky about it and making snide comments on their wall will make you look petty.

You put it on Facebook, and it ain't your picture any more.

You are being extremely silly.

ridiculous. yabu

If the picture is of them then YABVU and frankly ridiculous.

As others have said this all sounds very formal if you really are friends, did you obtain written permission before posting their pictures? It seems crazy to me anybody would ask for written permission from a friend to use a photo they're tagged in as a profile picture.

If you put photos of others on facebook then you surely must expect that they might then use the photo as they see fit - make it their profile or cover picture, print it off, whatever. You've put it in the public domain!

If you're really that precious then by all means go for a watermark in future but if I were your friend I would think you were being incredibly precious about a simple photo.

Is this a reverse?

If not YABU. Facebook 'own' the photographs once they are uploaded, anyway.

Tagging then automatically puts it on their page anyway , so anyone on their friend list would be able to see and comment on it.

wtf

YAB utterly U.

Also, I hate it when people upload photos of me to FB and tag me.

What is the picture of out of interest? Is it a people shot featuring the person, a landscape shot, something arty?
YABU -it's social media, you have tagged other people in the picture, basically it's not in any way private anymore. It could be seen and "stolen" by hundreds of they wanted to.

Yabu

YABU. It's fair game once it's on Facebook and you've tagged them.

If it's a photo of them, YABU.

I'm with you OP. This exact thing happened to me. It would have been manners to ask and I would have been flattered and said yes. Cheeky just to appropriate it.

I don't think it's cheeky to use the photo as her profile picture. I think it's cheeky to do so without commenting on the original something like "this is great, can I steal for my profile?"

And you do not lose rights by posting. You grant Facebook a non-exclusive licence to what you post (otherwise they couldn't display it to your friends!) but it's still yours.

It's not a photo of them, but their children are in it (hence tagging them). They knew it had been taken. Another friend commented on mine "great pic, mind if I use it?" To which I agreed. But the other just did it anyway without so much as a comment or word.

I know a lot of photographers and wouldn't dream of using a photo they took without checking they were okay about it.

It's got their children in it -you are definitely being unreasonable and frankly a wee bit ridiculous (sorry).

Ah, glad you like the photo. If you want, I'll send you the full size file - it will look better than a crappy FB grab.

YABU, and crazy!

Okay. Under what circumstances is it reasonable to expect a 'thanks'?

Honestly? I can't even think of when someone has thanked me for tagging them on Facebook. Ever. Nor have I thanked anyone -although I may have made a nice comment (if I liked the pic). It's only a photo.

It was a bit dodgy for you to lost pictures of someone else's children on Facebook in the first place you know.
I would never do that.

Snowglobe summed it up perfectly. WTF?!

I Would be annoyed if you posted a free for all pic of my child - nice or otherwise - by all means share with friends - but let them decide if its suitable.