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Artist selling drawings of my house

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TechGinny · 07/09/2021 12:43

I've just discovered that an artist local to the area is selling drawings of my property on her website. It's not easily viewed by the road, which means she would have had to enter the land to draw it.

I'm feeling quite annoyed about this, as she has never made contact to ask permission.

AIBU unreasonable to feel like this, and would you make contact to ask her to remove it from her website?

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repog · 10/09/2021 00:27

My parents have a lovely home, we paid an artist to draw a picture of it for one Christmas.

repog · 10/09/2021 00:30

and it's a beautiful couple of houses, so people notice them.

But how if they are obscured?

Cocogreen · 10/09/2021 00:35

@SteveArnottsWaistcoat

Your house is of notable interest due to its history and heritage being in your family for so long. The chances are, she’s obtained a historical image and has worked from that.
Yes that was my first thought. Local history society or museum may have a photo. Not everything is on the Internet.
ManifestDestinee · 10/09/2021 08:25

@MyOtherProfile

I'm just trying to make sense of this. A number of people in this thread would be happy for someone to come into their garden which is clearly fenced off enough from the road for people not to be able to see the house. And they would be happy for them to sit in their front garden to paint their house. Have I got that right?
No, you have not got that right.
WorriedWishingWell · 10/09/2021 08:26

@repog

It's more than I don't have a spare £40 for a picture of my own house

Despite inheriting a notable home?

That is very possible. There are many reasons why the OP doesn't have £40 spare to spend on a picture; and totally her business what she chooses to do with her money anyway. And it's irrelevant to the question she asked.
urkidding · 10/09/2021 09:17

There are two things here, aren't there? Your privacy being invaded and the fact you haven't been paid for usage of your land. I suggest you ask for a percentage of the sale value or the original picture.

ManifestDestinee · 10/09/2021 09:21

@urkidding

There are two things here, aren't there? Your privacy being invaded and the fact you haven't been paid for usage of your land. I suggest you ask for a percentage of the sale value or the original picture.
Her land hasn't been used and she isn't entitled to any payment for it's image.

Honestly, 500 posts about something someone may have possibly but probably didn't actually do.

Blossomtoes · 10/09/2021 10:23

you haven't been paid for usage of your land

Do you charge the postman for using your garden path? 😂

MyOtherProfile · 10/09/2021 11:59

Can you explain it then @ManifestDestinee ?

ManifestDestinee · 10/09/2021 12:07

What would you like me to explain?

therealpercypig · 10/09/2021 12:18

If your home is over a century old, then it is out of copyright.
Are there other images of your house available anywhere, online, printed, painting etc? Is this so the artist could have worked from these.
If not and there is no other way the artist could have taken their own photo of the property (ladder looking over a fence, zoom lens from afar?) without being on your land then the issue here is trespassing not copyright infringement.

MyOtherProfile · 10/09/2021 12:23

@ManifestDestinee

What would you like me to explain?
Well I wrote how I understood it and you said I had got it wrong. I assumed that meant you had a different idea but maybe not! Or maybe you just like patronising!
therealpercypig · 10/09/2021 12:26

Only if the artists painting contains an address it could become a privacy issue.

Put it this way, it is possible to paint a picture of Windsor Castle / Buckingham Palace ie The Queens residences from the road or from various reference imagery to sell without permission.

If the building is out of copyright and no trespassing has taken place it is within the law.

ManifestDestinee · 10/09/2021 12:35

Well I wrote how I understood it and you said I had got it wrong. I assumed that meant you had a different idea but maybe not! Or maybe you just like patronising!

You wrote how you understood and I said you had it wrong. As in, not right. You had misunderstood. What about that do you need explaining? You thought lots of people said something that nobody said. What is still unclear to you?

MyOtherProfile · 10/09/2021 12:44

Ok I will explain. I have one way of seeing it. You have another. I was asking what yours is since it's not obvious. But I have gathered that you can't really explain it so don't worry, it's not that important.

SusieBob · 10/09/2021 12:45

"If your home is over a century old, then it is out of copyright."

This really is the thread that keeps on giving.

ManifestDestinee · 10/09/2021 12:48

@MyOtherProfile

Ok I will explain. I have one way of seeing it. You have another. I was asking what yours is since it's not obvious. But I have gathered that you can't really explain it so don't worry, it's not that important.
No. You were commenting on what you thought other people had said. They did not. You were not giving an opinion. I don't need to give an opinion. You were assessing other peoples opinion, and badly.

You seem confused about your own post, did you read it? You shouldn't need me to explain your post to you.

longwayoff · 10/09/2021 12:50

There are many photos and drawing/paintings of this old house and I sometimes open the front door to find tourists standing there to be photographed. I'm just another of the centuries of temporary residents passing through. Not a problem here.

MyOtherProfile · 10/09/2021 12:53

Oh dear! Never mind.

LuaDipa · 10/09/2021 13:03

Yanbu op.

The fact that you have had the good fortune to inherit a beautiful family home does not entitle anyone to trespass on your property in order to produce images of it for profit without your permission. It is first and foremost a home however lovely, unique, picturesque it is.

I quite agree that while still annoying, it would be different if the house was clearly visible from the road or the drawings were done from an image found online. But I would consider it quite crass.

I doubt some of the posters defending this woman would be quite as understanding if they returned home to find her camped out in their front garden producing a crap sketch of their property to flog without permission.

therealpercypig · 10/09/2021 13:17

@SusieBob

"If your home is over a century old, then it is out of copyright."

This really is the thread that keeps on giving.

I stand corrected! the building is protected by copyright until 70 years after the architect death.

Without referencing back did the op say it had been in her family for over a century? I presume it was someone else property before that meaning its highly likely the original architect is now dead 70+ years.

therealpercypig · 10/09/2021 13:20

Anyone else imagining this house to be a pretty 200 year old thatched cottage by a stream? Grin

FrankOrTheBeans · 10/09/2021 13:26

I was picturing something like this...
(Please don't sue me if this is your house OP.)

Artist selling drawings of my house
ManifestDestinee · 10/09/2021 13:27

@LuaDipa

Yanbu op.

The fact that you have had the good fortune to inherit a beautiful family home does not entitle anyone to trespass on your property in order to produce images of it for profit without your permission. It is first and foremost a home however lovely, unique, picturesque it is.

I quite agree that while still annoying, it would be different if the house was clearly visible from the road or the drawings were done from an image found online. But I would consider it quite crass.

I doubt some of the posters defending this woman would be quite as understanding if they returned home to find her camped out in their front garden producing a crap sketch of their property to flog without permission.

Another one!

I don't doubt any of us would have something to say if we actually came back to someone sitting in our garden painting. But since that never actually happened to OP,what the fuck are you waffling about?

Aren't there enough things that actually happened for you to get an inane opinion about, do you really have to invent scenarios to get upset about?

therealpercypig · 10/09/2021 13:34

@FrankOrTheBeans

I was picturing something like this... (Please don't sue me if this is your house OP.)
Oh that is a nice house!

This is how I think it looks like Smile

Artist selling drawings of my house