Bleeding copyright jobsworths....

[BrianSnail]

Inform Boots of your legal rights under copyright law

Who owns the copyright on photographs?
Under law, it is the photographer who will own copyright on any photos he/she has taken, with the following exceptions:

• If the photographer is an employee of the company the photos are taken for, or is an employee of a company instructed to take the photos, the photographer will be acting on behalf of his/her employer, and the company the photographer works for will own the copyright.

• If there is an agreement that assigns copyright to another party.

In all other cases, the photographer will retain the copyright, if the photographer has been paid for his work, the payment will be for the photographer’s time and typically an allocated number of prints. The copyright to the photos will remain with the photographer, and therefore any reproduction without permission would be an infringement of copyright.

HTH

[Ruprect]

Had some photos from the hols of the kids that were taken in a theme park in Portugal.

as least they didn't call the police for the crime of taking photos of children

Especially as the little blonde one doesn't look anything like mum and dad...


IGMC

[Moscow Mule]

Especially as the little blonde one doesn't look anything like mum and dad...


IGMC

Funny eye?

[NotAllThere]

Were these photos similar to those ones that get taken automatically on rhe ride at some point?

[TykeMerc]

Actually some things are copyrighted so you can't photograph them. The ceiling of the Sistine Chappel in the Vatican for instance is copyright of some Japanese TV company that paid for its restoration. Doges Palace in Venice has something similar.

I don't see how a theme park would have a similar restriction though so the Boots person was talking complete bollards in all probability.
Mind you it's possible that Boots have had a kicking from the likes of Disney in the past so they have a policy in place for this sort of eventuality.

[ThomasSoerensen]

report the idiot at Boots to the police for theft of your property.

[BrianSnail]

report the idiot at Boots to the police for theft of your property.

Or invoice them for reproducing your copyrighted material. Boomed!

[expat]

Actually some things are copyrighted so you can't photograph them. The ceiling of the Sistine Chappel in the Vatican for instance is copyright of some Japanese TV company that paid for its restoration. Doges Palace in Venice has something similar.

I don't see how a theme park would have a similar restriction though so the Boots person was talking complete bollards in all probability.
Mind you it's possible that Boots have had a kicking from the likes of Disney in the past so they have a policy in place for this sort of eventuality.

It is not the copyright that prevents you from photographing the ceiling of the Sistine chapel, it is the Vatican policy as owners of the building. One of the reasons for this may well be the copyright held by a benefactor; and indeed if the copyright is held by a Japanese Co then you couldn't publish a photo without their permission, but you are not prevented by copyright law from taking a photo of it.

I note an example, the illumination of the Eiffel Tower is copyright. However, this does not mean that you can't take a holiday snap of it (you can), it only means that you can not publish a photograph that is of it, or in which it plays an important part, without permission.


Boots may well have a policy in place for this. That would make it their policy not to make prints of such photos. It would not make it the law.

[Churchill]

Especially as the little blonde one doesn't look anything like mum and dad...


IGMC

Funny eye?

Aye!