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Photos of dd made public - no consent given and im FUMING!!

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somethinghastogive · 29/04/2013 22:15

Hi.
Can anyone advise of what legal action i can take, if any?
DH was best man at a wedding of his best friend from school days. Bride to be and i dont get along. Myselfand dd still went as dh wanted us there. The photos have been made public without us knowing content. Just looked at them and during the wedding bride has taken our daughter off and had photos taken with her. Our daughter is 3. I am soooo angry. Can i do anything about this? Both my dh and i gave NO permission for pic's to be taken of our dd and she at no point asked our permission.
Thankyou in advance.

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somethinghastogive · 29/04/2013 22:17

Apologies for rubbish grammer etc! I am angry and rubbish at grammer Wink

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cece · 29/04/2013 22:17

How did you not miss your DD if she was taken off for photos to be taken?

HootShoot · 29/04/2013 22:18

Surely if you go to a wedding you have to expect that your photo will be taken and published on line?

MissyMooandherBeaverofSteel · 29/04/2013 22:18

Have you asked them to take the photos of your dd down?

Picturesinthefirelight · 29/04/2013 22:18

All you can do is to nicely ask that the photos are not made public giving your reasons (if you have an actual reason)

Otherwise if you don't want pictures of your dd anywhere cover her with a veil in public.

recall · 29/04/2013 22:20

Sorry, I don't know the answer. I understand your anger, my DD was 2, and was filmed playing on the beach in her costume and it was used on the local news. Apparently this was perfectly legal, even though no one asked my permission Confused

reddaisy · 29/04/2013 22:20

You don't need to give consent for a pic of your child to be in the public domain. You could ask your DP to ask his friend for it to be removed from whereever it is though and then move on.

IDoTakeTwo · 29/04/2013 22:21

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AgentProvocateur · 29/04/2013 22:21

Copyright remains with the photographer, and legally he or she can do what s/he wants (for non-commercial use)

Gingerodgers · 29/04/2013 22:21

Fek, you sound nice.

seeker · 29/04/2013 22:22

Why on earth is this an issue?

Bowlersarm · 29/04/2013 22:22

I don't understand why you are so angry. I would have thought that all the guests have their photo taken at a wedding. Especially children, as it is a family occasion, and especially the children of the Best Man who is part of the wedding party. Where are the photo's displayed?

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somethinghastogive · 29/04/2013 22:23

I want to also add - sorry but i am so upset right now. But, we do not allow pic's of dd of facebook or anything. We have always made that clear to dh old school friend and his new wife. For her to do this is so wrong. Sh knows we dont allow this. Yet has posted this pic on public social networking sites without consent.

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JaquelineHyde · 29/04/2013 22:23

Why are you bothered by this?

Photos are taken at weddings, you didn't have to go.

Is this more to do with you not getting on with the bride rather than you being upset about DD's photo being taken?

freddiemisagreatshag · 29/04/2013 22:23

Have you asked them to take it down?

And how did you not miss a 3 year old?

sooperdooper · 29/04/2013 22:23

Didn't you notice she was missing for a while when the pics were taken?

Surely most weddings involve guests having their photo taken, is there a particular reason you don't want her photo online? I think you could ask for the photos to be taken down, and see what they say?

TheSecondComing · 29/04/2013 22:24

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Picturesinthefirelight · 29/04/2013 22:25

Which she is perfectly entitled to do.

If those are your rules and you are entitled to your own family rules - then you need to keep your dd away from social occasions.

usualsuspect · 29/04/2013 22:26

I don't think you would care if you liked the bride.

MisForMumNotMaid · 29/04/2013 22:27

I can understand a bit of shock at seeing pictures of your very young child published that you didn't know about. Is your concern about child protection type issues?

My personal take on this is that so long as the childs name isn't associated with published images the risk, without any other surrounding issues, is very small.

seeker · 29/04/2013 22:27

Unless there is back story you are overreacting hugely!

But have you asked them to take those particular picture down?

JaquelineHyde · 29/04/2013 22:27

Who took the photos?

Who has posted them on facebook? Is it the bride or is it someone else who has then tagged her in the photos?

I suspect that there are probably lots of photos of your DD from the wedding floating around after all most guests take photos and then publish on line.

Surely if you dodn't want this to happen you should have either not gone or not let your DD out of your sight so you could monitor who was taking photos.

Geordieminx · 29/04/2013 22:27

Helllooooo what's the problem???

Bowlersarm · 29/04/2013 22:28

Hmmmm, I think you are just trying to pick a fight with the bride who you don't like. I don't see what bride has done wrong-how very dare she have photographs of her wedding guests Hmm

milkymocha · 29/04/2013 22:28

I'd be more concerned with the fact you didnt notice your 3 year old going missing at a wedding.

God give me strength, fair enough you dont like pictures of DD on fb but get over it. Is this really going to matter in 10 years time? Whats so precious about your daughter that no one may dare take a picture of her?

Ridiculous Hmm people take pictures at weddings. Stick a blanket over her head in future.

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