EA reusing photos

jackomdj

Op stated they are possibly selling due to ill health. It could be that the ea have said, rather than sending someone round and bothering you we will just use the photo's from last year as the house has not changed since then.

googler

jamesd wrote: »

If the context is copyright licensing, I definitely agree that it's a breach of copyright because the original license is no longer valid and could never have bound the original photographer, who wasn't a party to the agreement with the estate agent and can't be covered by even any ongoing use permission it might contain.

You refer to the 'photographer' as a separate party to the EA, but in many cases, probably for the OP as well, this won't be the case. Photos are often taken by persons within the agency themselves, who are likely to be employees of the agency.

jamesd

In this case the poster wrote "they weren't actually taken by the EA but by a third party".

If an agency employee took the photographs as a work for hire then of course that eliminates the copyright issue.

It might be idly amusing if the agency used contractors rather than employees and didn't get an assignment of copyright from them, then ended up being chased for breach of copyright by the person they paid to do the work.

ValHaller

jamesd wrote: »

.... That certainly looks to me as though you were writing about some privacy-related licensing.

OK, keep yourself amused answering points I didn't make, I have no problem with that - but please don't make out you are answering points I am making.

jamesd

So why quote the privacy part of my post if you weren't writing about privacy-related licensing? What licensing were you thinking of?

ValHaller

jamesd wrote: »

So why quote the privacy part of my post if you weren't writing about privacy-related licensing?

Because you were responding to me by making a privacy argument and I was quoting where you were going wrong in order to specifically deny making a privacy argument. Just drop it. Please.

Middy

rcorke wrote: »

Yes they have our furniture and personal possessions on which is how we identified that they are our photos. To me it feels like an invasion of privacy.

I personally don't understand why it should invade your privacy. Potential buyers to your old property don't know where you live now!

You are not going to gain anything from the sale financially etc.

A few months ago, I saw on RM the flat I used to live my ex for rent and still had a few things in the flat which I personally put in - light fitting, shelves in kitchen, loo roll holder. Did I feel the need to complain to the EA? No!