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?!

from facebook's own t&cs:

For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.

OP - another one who thinks YWBU for putting pictures of someone's children on FB. If they do then that's up to them but you shouldn't be. When my DD was born, 2 family members put pics of her on FB without asking - I was !

IF my friends take a photo of me and I like it I regularly use it as a profile pic... it's my bloody face.

YABVVU

YABU

Most of my profile pictures have been taken and shares by other people because I'm not into selfies. That's what social media is all about and I wouldn't think twice about it!

It is petty really. But my sil (who generally annoys me anyway) kept commenting on a photo of my kids taken at my wedding. Congratulating herself on what a great photo she took. She didn't. It was one of the professional photographers photos. She'd taken a similar one and you can plainly see which is the professional and which was the snap she took. I'm always so tempted to lift the actual one she took from the album on her Facebook and put it in the comments

YABU, I find the idea of thanking friends for uploading a pic of my DC to Fb weird.

Different if you are a pro photographer, but if you are friends, you are being bizarrely precious.

Sorry op but I really don't understand why you're so bothered about this if you tagged the person and the picture is of that person. I don't see the issue personally.

You are coming across as an absolute loon.

Step away from facebook.

Get 48,000 grips.

Jesus.

You are NOT being unreasonable to be bothered and to find it cheeky, but she probably doesn't think of it as cheeky as she asked you to take the photo (and probably didn't pay, correct?).

I know plenty of people that have no issue of all sorts of kids photos being uploaded online, and other people who are against it so it's etiquette to ask. She may have been annoyed that you uploaded the photo and tagged her instead of e-mailing it to her privately.

Consider it a lesson learned and in future watermark any professional photos (across the face is usually best as it's hard to edit out but doesn't look very good uploaded).

p.s. It is common courtesy for someone to say "this is a great photo of me, do you mind if I steal it?" before just taking a photo that someone else has on their FB, even if they're in the photo... I'm really surprised by how many people just randomly take other people's photos for their own use without even a how-do-you-do!

p.s. It is common courtesy for someone to say "this is a great photo of me, do you mind if I steal it?" before just taking a photo that someone else has on their FB, even if they're in the photo... I'm really surprised by how many people just randomly take other people's photos for their own use without even a how-do-you-do!

Surely the number of people who have said that they don't do this suggests that it's not as common as you thought.

Yabcrazy.
And seemingly after an ego stroke

How can you steal an image the photographer has put out in the public domain? That doesn't make sense.
They've shared it in the first place.

The same way that you can't just start lifting images from Google and use them for whatever you like!

"Sorry op but I really don't understand why you're so bothered about this if you tagged the person and the picture is of that person. I don't see the issue personally."

For the hundredth time THEY ARE NOT IN THE PHOTO THEMSELVES.

Right, I assumed it was a picture of them. If it's not then yes I would be a bit too.

It's a group of about 12 children. The parents asked me to get a picture of them, which with a lot of messing about I did. (They'd given up trying to get them all looking the same way.) It didn't need much tweaking and it turned out really well. I don't have every one of the parents' email addresses so was asked to put it in FB and tag those that are friends. One asked to use it, another has just taken it and use it.

Surely it's the same as if they ask you to take a photo, you print a copy and give it to them. Then they put it in a frame in their house and have everyone who visits comments on what a lovely picture it is. They don't need to ask your permission to display the photo for others to see because you have given them the photo.

Literally who cares, how do you actually care about this

I still wouldn't be too exercised.

You took this image knowing that it would be shared on Facebook and you enabled this sharing by tagging it. I honestly think that all that's happened is exactly what you'd expect to happen in these circumstances.

The lesson you have probably learned is that if you are going to get upset by not being credited then you'll need to watermark similar images in future.

YANBU. It was cheeky.

I don't really believe that but it's obviously what you want to hear

Very cheeky. You deserve full credit and praise. People have seen a photo on Facebook and didn't know you took it.