AIBU to want MY wedding photos on my facebook page

[bamboobutton]

I received an email this morning from my sister asking me to remove my wedding pictures from my facebook site as she doesn't want her picture on facebook.

as she was a bridesmaid she is therefore in almost every picture.

i have removed them but i am very pissed off about it these pictures have been on my page for almost a year and she hasn't had an issue before now.

would IBU to put them back up and tell her tough luck?

Technically you took the pictures at your wedding she agreed to be in them. YOu own the copyright so can do as you please.

HOWEVER if she's asked for them to be removed for whatever reason you should do as she has requested.

I'd want to know why suddenly after a year she wants her photo removed. She cant have only just found out???

I am with your sister. I am totally unphotogenic. Hate facebook with a passion and only have an account so that now and again I can check that George Clooney has tried to 'friend' me and that there aren't any more hideous photos up of me since the last time I checked.

I think it is only fair to take down photos that are unflattering if someone asks.

Having said all of that I have never asked all photos to be removed just the odd heinous one.

Finally - to turn your question around at you, if you have already had your photos up there for a whole year then why do you care? If you like to look at them alot surely you don't need to log in to FB to do so?

Sorry if I sound like a grumpy old cow, It's just that I am
today anyway

cat64 i have other photos of her on my FB account, she hasn't asked for then to be removed.

newteacher i thought there was something about copyright and my right to do what i want with them, i couldn't remember what though so i didn't bring it up.
i have removed the pics, not as pissed off about it as i was this this morning but still a bit miffed, i want my friends to see my wedding pics[sulk]

sifuentes i want my pics up because i am always adding old pals from the "good ole days" and i want them to be able to see my wedding pics if they so wish.

If your profile is friends only then surely it's no different to just having the photos on display in your home in terms of who will actually see them? Posting photos on a private profile isn't really the same as posting them on 'the internet' as a whole. If you'd put the pictures in a frame on your mantlepiece could she tell you to take them down? If you'd had them printed on a mug could she demand you don't use it? If she's not personally identifiable I don't really see what the problem is. She knew the pictures were being taken and would be shared in all manner of ways. She is BU.

Then I would ask her to be a bit more reasonable and say that she can choose say 5 to come down but not all cos that is just being a bit too goddamn precious.

would that work??

Did you make her wear a really awful bridesmaid dress

You can own the copyright of the pictures, but you do not have the right to post recognisable pictures of someone on the internet without their permission. You can take pictures of people without their permission I believe, but cannot store or do anything with them with as a recognisable electronic image comes under the data protection act. She is within her rights to ask you to take them down, as would you be if someone posted images of you or your children online.

Is having pictures of your wedding on facebook really worth falling out with your sister about? If she doesn't want them there then take them off - it's not like your life depends on it is it? YABU

Is having pictures of your wedding on facebook really worth falling out with your sister about? If she doesn't want them there then take them off - it's not like your life depends on it is it? YABU

brokenrecord not according to this. scroll down to first myth.

bamboobutton - thanks for setting the record straight! I've been shaking my head at all the wrong advice given on on this thread so you saved me a job

YAB a bit U, I hate it when people put pics of me on fb without askng.
YNBU if she's seen them before and not bothered
One friend has put pics of me doing something naughty meaning I can't allow my work-friends to be my friends.

Find the one with her looking most minging with you looking fab in the foreground, blow it up huge and put it up in your front room. Then throw a huge party

Thanks for that Bamboobutton. Happy to stand corrected if that is the case, and to be honest, I would think it is unlikely that your sister will take it to legal channels anyway.

However, I still think that this is a murky area of the law where some things are still not clear and won't be until there is a case for precedant. From browsing around, it would seem that your sister's picture is still her 'personal data', and needs to be treated as such, whethre you are a professional or not. Lastly, as someone mentioned copyright, you might want to consider this quote I found about what rights owning the copyright gives and what it doesn't:

85 Right to privacy of certain photographs and films
(1) A person who for private and domestic purposes commissions the taking of a photograph or the making of a film has, where copyright subsists in the resulting work, the right not to have,
(a) copies of the work issued to the public,
(b) the work exhibited or shown in public, or
(c) the work communicated to the public;

HTH