Seller has used my pictures

pioneer31

I sold my house a few years back, using pictures which my estate took (and therefore I paid for)


I have noticed that it has been sold recently and the seller has used all of my pictures.


This is ten years later by the way


Is this allowed?

AdrianC

pioneer31 wrote: »

I sold my house a few years back, using pictures which my estate took (and therefore I paid for)

I have noticed that it has been sold recently and the seller has used all of my pictures.

Is this allowed?

If the estate agent took them, then copyright in the pictures will belong to the EA - unless your contract with them explicitly passed copyright to you.

Or, to look at it another way, does it really matter? Lemme guess - you think you might be due some compensation...?

booksurr

EA almost certainly has the copyright of the pictures since it was they who took them. You are irrelevant in terms of who uses them for what.

csgohan4

AdrianC wrote: »

If the estate agent took them, then copyright in the pictures will belong to the EA - unless your contract with them explicitly passed copyright to you.

Or, to look at it another way, does it really matter? Lemme guess - you think you might be due some compensation...?

Took the words from my mouth. Screams of Comp in this day and age. All about money when you don't deserve it.

Dan-Dan

1st world problems

pathetic

pollydollydoodah

I can see your annoyance if it's your furniture etc in the photos but as others have said they're the EA photos. You could probably state your annoyance to the EA but I'd doubt you'd get anywhere or anything.

glasgowdan

It's reasonable to feel a tiny pang of 'err hang on!', but they're not your photos, best just ignore it. You paid at the time and got the sale...

AdrianC

pollydollydoodah wrote: »

I can see your annoyance if it's your furniture etc in the photos

Are the RM details stating furniture included?

moneyistooshorttomention

I would feel a tad annoyed initially - but would console myself with the comeback there will be on the EA from using inaccurate pictures (once would-be buyers see the house is rather different to what they thought according to the pictures).

pioneer31

I'm not looking for compensation, what I am looking for is giving the seller a slap on the wrist, or etting the EA do it.


The original sale was an awful experience, they messed us around something shocking, told lies, stalled and so on.


I also visited the house a year ago and saw that the landscaped garden had been left to an overgrown mess. It barely resembled the garden we left.


Yes I know it's not my house anymore but I was mildly irritated that they used pictures that my EA took of the house with my furniture and the garden that I left.


None of this surprises me, the people we sold to would have murdered their grandmother for a tenner, they were that tight.

Dan-Dan

Most peoples house photos are on the Internet via old sold listings on both RM and Zoopla

There are much more pressing matters to be annoyed with