General Article Control of your images online

Topic Selected: Privacy Book Volume: 451

A picture is worth a thousand words – so the saying goes.

Billions of photographs are uploaded to the internet every day. Social media use is on the rise, so more images are being posted.

People like to share photos of themselves, their friends and things that they do.

But who owns the images you post? What can you do if someone posts images of you that you don’t want them to post?

Copyright of images

Photos are usually protected by copyright as they are thought of as artistic works. Copyright happens automatically in the UK when a photograph is created, as long as it meets the needed criteria for copyright protection. This means the person who took the photo usually owns it. The copyright of images usually lasts for the life of the creator plus 70 years from the end of the year of their death.

There are times when this is not the case. For example if a photo was taken by someone as part of their job. Then the employer would usually own the copyright for the photo. But there might b...

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