Photography / press rights

lbeaton

Hello, can anyone help please?

I live on a private road, although it is a throughroad. A reporter visited my house yesterday and has taken photographs of my garden which will be published in the press tomorrow. They were possibly taken from the road rather than within my property. Is this legal? The photos may cause a backlash and I have 2 little girls under 5 so don't want unnessesary attention.

The reporter did leave a note under my door to call her, which I duly did to inform her that I was not interested in communicating with the press. Looks like the article has gone to print regardless.

Thanks in advance for your opinions,
Laura

anotherbaldrick

If the photographs were taken from the road they presumably do not show anything that anyone else could also see from the road ?

JournalGirl

Perfectly legal

I_have_spoken

Interesting! Will be checking the Mail.

Leif

Are you on Google maps?

fluffymuffy

Most weekends a vintage car pulls up outside our front door and a bride and groom get photographed with our house as the backdrop. (A different bride and groom each week). We just enjoy peeping round the curtains at them. We've no thought to "refuse permission". Perhaps we should charge though.

paddyrg

fluffymuffy wrote: »

Most weekends a vintage car pulls up outside our front door and a bride and groom get photographed with our house as the backdrop. (A different bride and groom each week). We just enjoy peeping round the curtains at them. We've no thought to "refuse permission". Perhaps we should charge though.

Put some scarecrows in bridal gear in your garden bang in the middle of the shot - then offer to remove them for a scarecrow removal fee of £50...

WTFH

lbeaton wrote: »

Hello, can anyone help please?

I live on a private road, although it is a throughroad. A reporter visited my house yesterday and has taken photographs of my garden which will be published in the press tomorrow. They were possibly taken from the road rather than within my property. Is this legal? The photos may cause a backlash and I have 2 little girls under 5 so don't want unnessesary attention.

The reporter did leave a note under my door to call her, which I duly did to inform her that I was not interested in communicating with the press. Looks like the article has gone to print regardless.

Thanks in advance for your opinions,
Laura

Did you inform her that you didn't want the photos published if your children were in them, or did you just say that you didn't want to talk to her?

Rockingit

Photo's (of anything) if taken in a public place are perfectly legal.

Funky_Bold_Ribena

lbeaton wrote: »

Hello, can anyone help please?

I live on a private road, although it is a throughroad. A reporter visited my house yesterday and has taken photographs of my garden which will be published in the press tomorrow. They were possibly taken from the road rather than within my property. Is this legal? The photos may cause a backlash and I have 2 little girls under 5 so don't want unnessesary attention.

The reporter did leave a note under my door to call her, which I duly did to inform her that I was not interested in communicating with the press. Looks like the article has gone to print regardless.

Thanks in advance for your opinions,
Laura

Did you not think to ask her not to publish them as it might cause a backlash and it's a child protection issue?

Leif

Funky_Bold_Ribena wrote: »

Did you not think to ask her not to publish them as it might cause a backlash and it's a child protection issue?

It's not a child protection issue. Were a photographer to follow some children, and take photos specifically of them, then it would be an invasion of privacy and the police would take an interest.

The photographer can take photos and publish them, but they could be held to account were they to in some way to harm you e.g. add a comment saying "Here live some unpleasnt chavs", or be seen to invade your privacy. How do you think photographers get away with publishing photos of famous crofts in Scotland in calendars?

The OP should have asked the reporter for the law on this issue. The reporter will have known the law - they have to - and most probably would have given an honest account of the issues.