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Legal Help

  • 13-04-2006 1:58pm
    #1
    quad_red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭


    Hey!
    I'm trying to find some info in regards to taking people's pictures and what legislation there is controlling this.

    I know that in certain criminal cases (to do with minors etc.) a judge can ban the media from taking pictures. I wonder does this have any broader application? Do papers have to get your permission to print your picture?

    Cheers
    Quad


Comments

  • #2
    rymus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    quad_red wrote:
    Do papers have to get your permission to print your picture?

    no. But (in the words of my old English teacher), develop and discuss with factual reference...


  • #3
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    Perhaps Legal Discussion would be better suited?


  • #4
    Beano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭Beano


    If you take a picture surely you own the copyright for the picture which would mean that a paper would need your permission to reproduce it?


  • #5
    elderlemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭elderlemon


    You've asked two questions 1) taking photos of other people and 2) Printing without permission

    Taking photos of others is perfectly legal PROVIDED that person does not have a resonable expectation of privacy. So you take a photo in the street of some stranger. You are entitled to do so and they have no comeback as they can not expect privacy while walking up the street. On the other hand take a photo of someone in their back garden without them knowing and you can get in trouble.

    Printing of photos - if you send a photo to a paper and they've told you that they you waive all ownership of said photo then tough. However if they simply take you photo off a site and print it then you have a case. Just because a photo is available online (or via another medium) doesn't necessarily imply that its in the public domain.


  • #6
    edunon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭edunon


    You don't need permission to take photos of people if they are in a public place.
    You can't sell those photos unless you have permission from them.
    You could sell those photos to a newspaper if they can be consider "news"
    If people on those photos complain, they have to do it to the newspaper/magazine, not to you.


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  • #7
    Chochese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭Chochese


    quad_red wrote:
    Do papers have to get your permission to print your picture?

    Just want to clarify, when you say "print your picture" do you mean to publish a picture you have taken or publish a picture of you ??

    If it's the former, yes they do, but you have to specify if it's once off usage or are the free to use it again if they wish etc.

    If it's the latter, no they don't if it's for editorial use.


  • #8
    EireRoadUser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 650 ✭✭✭EireRoadUser


    Just thinking if it was illegal to take photos of people in a public place ,no one would be able to use a camera at all ,unless they were pointing it at the seagulls.:D


  • #9
    dalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 566 ✭✭✭dalk


    edunon wrote:
    You can't sell those photos unless you have permission from them.

    To my knowledge there can be a distinction, if the hypothetical picture of a person in public is considered "art", to be hung in a gallery (and/or sold as such) or the same picture was to be used solely for commercial/advertising purposes. A model release would be needed for the ad.


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