A photo of my son (13 years old) was taken at a football match with out our consent. it was published in a newspaper again with out our consent. The photo was good one and I would like a copy of it but the photographer will not give me copy of it with out

[kingofbedsits]

A photo of my son (13 years old) was taken at a football match with out our consent. it was published in a newspaper again with out our consent. The photo was good one and I would like a copy of it but the photographer will not give me copy of it with out a hefty charge. What pressure can I bear down on him?

[TTG]

Is it on the newspapers website? Right click save image as. If it cannot be done that way, press Print Scrn and past into an image editor to crop.

[jno]

have you asked the newspaper itself? They may hold the copyright rather than the photographer.

[Feynman]

Consent is not required to take or publish the photograph. Was he a newspaper photographer, working for the newspaper in which the photograph was published? If so the newspaper usually has fixed fees for selling photographs. If not then it will be a matter between you and the photographer. It takes skill years of dedication and very expensive equipment to get really good photographs. It is reasonable to charge for pictures, and the laws of supply and demand apply. You don't say what the "hefty" charge is, but you could try and negotiate the price down to a reasonable one.

[Zeuhl]

Generally, copyright belongs to the photographer unless a commissioning client negotiates (and pays for) something different.

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[LoftyLottie]

Consent wouldn't be necessary.

[Andyvon]

Britains a free country and people can photograph whatever and whomsoever they wish. The only time photography become illegal is when the pictures are used for nefarious purposes such as paedophilia. Illegal publishing however, is a completely different issue to taking the picture in the first place.

My wife and I take lots of photographs on our travels abroad and in the UK for our photo albums. There are so many people in the UK who have this attitude that they or their children shouldn't be photographed. What do they think someone will do? Stick pins in the picture or excited themselves over it? Even if they did, so what! It wouldn't harm the subject. Not only that, we are all photographed and filmed hundreds of times a day for 'security' reasons. Whenever we walk down the road, enter a shop etc. My neighbour's a security guard who works 12 hour shifts. He says he and his colleagues only use the cameras to zoom in and ogle women and girls to pass the boredom!

No one needs your consent to photograph your son kingofbedsits. Why should they? The photographer and newspaper made the photograph so it's their property. It's nothing to do with you. If you want a copy of their picture, buy one.

[tamborine]

if the paper is on the web you could download the photo

[ttfn]

wyz - I do have a sneaking regard for you so dont worry about your street cred - I have none at all ;o) x

[Mamyalynne]

I have some lovely photographs of my late husband and my father, thanks to newspaper pictures and they are special because are not posed and very different to family snaps, did not mind paying the fee for them

[boxtops]

Wyz I wouldn't worry about your street cred, worry about mine - I was filmed in the audience at Juke Box Jury....

[saxy_jag]

All of the above. Consent, parental or otherwise, isn't a legal requirement, although it's considered polite and courteous to ask. Organisations that have kids photographed all the time - sports clubs, schools, theatres etc., will obtain consent because they don't want the hassle of some barrack-room lawyer of a parent giving them grief.

As for copies, most regional and local newspapers have a system whereby you can buy a copy of an image from them for a small fee. I have a lovely photo of my two boys, taken when they were little, which appeared in the local rag, and which I willingly paid for as it's a first rate photo by one of the paper's better staff photographers.

[ttfn]

mamya - that is lovely. My family pictures never got further than the police station notice board.

[boxtops]

I've had my photo taken with Claire Rayner (street cred going d o w n)

[Mamyalynne]

They chose my father to model the new postman's uniform in the 1950,s, he was a very handsome chap and the other of him was a photo of a young couple with a baby sat up i an old fashioned pram on a canal bridge, he happened to be fishing the canal at the time and is really good.

[ttfn]

Wide lens then eh?