House advertised for rent using my old photos

ozziechef

We recently sold our house to someone who was buying to rent the property.

I've now seen the property advertised for rent. However, this is being advertised with photos of the house full of my property - my photos are visible on the wall etc.

Can I ask the letting agent to remove these photos? the house is being rented unfurnished and I believe it has been redecorated since the photos were taking.

If it adds complexity, the letting agent is the rental department of the estate agent that sold the property.

It's more that I don't want our personal photos and property displayed against a property that is no longer anything to do with us (obviously when I was in it to sell the house I didn't care).

Appreciate any help....

propertyman

You no longer live there, unless they contain an image of people you know, or you, its not really an issue is it?

You have physically moved, move on as well emotionally and don't sweat it:)

ozziechef

They do a contain photos of me that are on the wall in the property

Dan-Dan

If you complain to them stating what you just said here , the ones offending you will be gone by the end of the day , betcha

googler

ozziechef wrote: »

They do a contain photos of me that are on the wall in the property

So, these photos have been online already, when the property was sold?

laidbackgjr

Unless you took the photographs your self, then the copyright probably belongs to the agent and allows them to use them as they see fit.

Werdnal

laidbackgjr wrote: »

Unless you took the photographs your self, then the copyright probably belongs to the agent and allows them to use them as they see fit.

I tend to agree with the above. The photos taken became the property of the agent. Was it same agent who sold the place as is now letting it?

We had similar with our Wedding photos - a few months afterwards, walked past the photographer's studio in the High Street, only to see a full sized photo of myself and hubby in the middle of their window display. Its in the T&Cs you sign at the time, that they can used them without gaining further permission or consent for their own advertising. We didn't mind at all, and I don't think I'd worry about house photos either.

You published them to the world and his wife to sell the place, so they are in the "public domain" already. If it bothers you, ask them to prove they have your prior consent to use them.

Davesnave

ozziechef wrote: »

If it adds complexity, the letting agent is the rental department of the estate agent that sold the property.


Appreciate any help....

It doesn't complicate matters, it explains it. The EA is lazy and the property may well look better with your belongings in it. I know our last rented place did, compared with when it was full of the LL's mothers old tat.

Few will know that it's your stuff, and nobody will care.

You shouldn't care either. You are in a better place....one hopes. Either way, try to let go.

tbs624

ozziechef wrote: »

Can I ask the letting agent to remove these photos?

You can ask the LA anything you like, so why not just write asking them to remove the photos which you would prefer were not used? You won't know their answer if you don't ask the question and then once you know, you can decide what to do about it, if anything.

As others have said, much depends on what was agreed about photo use/copyright when you signed up to sell your house with this LA/EA.

googler

If you didn't want photos with your photo within them to be published online at all, the time to protest was last time round. It's difficult to see your argument on this basis when you've explicitly agreed to them being published once already.

DRP

Werdnal wrote: »

I tend to agree with the above. The photos taken became the property of the agent. Was it same agent who sold the place as is now letting it?

We had similar with our Wedding photos - a few months afterwards, walked past the photographer's studio in the High Street, only to see a full sized photo of myself and hubby in the middle of their window display. Its in the T&Cs you sign at the time, that they can used them without gaining further permission or consent for their own advertising. We didn't mind at all, and I don't think I'd worry about house photos either.

You published them to the world and his wife to sell the place, so they are in the "public domain" already. If it bothers you, ask them to prove they have your prior consent to use them.

"full sized" as in life-size?!!? :eek: