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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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what can i do if a school uses my photos without my permission? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by averageworrywort@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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i'm having issues with my old highschool/the person who is running the yearbook now. they're new at it and have no idea what they're doing yet. we agreed that i would come back this year and take photos of events for the yearbook. i have not missed a single home game this year, and i have taken thousands of pictures. suddenly this person decides they don't want my help and won't be using my pictures in the book. this is very much out of left field for me.

knowing this person, there's a large chance they'll end up using my pictures anyway. are my images protected by copyright in any way? what can i do if my pictures end up being used in the yearbook?

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[–] d_dauber@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

You told them they could use the images. You got in free. If they chose not to use them after the fact does not change the agreement. Either way, from what you posted, they are free to use them or not. It is up to them how they use them in the yearbook. Maybe it doesnt match up with what they are going for this year. If they have for sure said they will not be using any of your images, then you have a right to ask them to delete them from their archives and not use them at all. But in the end, it doesn't matter if they dont use them. You got good images for your portfolio and that's what you were after, right? Well done!

Keep shooting and hope things change in the future. Personal advice, it's not worth a lawsuit if they decide to use them or not. You will be blackballed in the future as someone that is difficult to deal with. And you don't want future paying clients to hear that.