Does anyone know where we'll stand regarding this - in September we got some family photos taken by a photographer, he never got us to sign a contract and didn't verbally ask us if he could use the photos.
In February we found out that he was using photos of my baby's photo (aged 3 months when photographed) on his website (through my sister spotting them) which we asked him to remove and not use our sons photos but we had no qualms about him using any of the pictures of us (the adults) although I would have thought it would be courteous to at least ask/mention. Then today we have found out (off my uncle) that he has put our sons photo on 5000 leaflets advertising his business, photography sessions and prices which have been circulating since before February.
He has made no attempt to redeem the uncirculated ones from stores (obviously nothing can be done about the ones posted through letterboxes) and never bothered to mention it to us that he has used them even though these had already been produced and put out for advertising before I previously contacted him.
Now my thing is - he never once asked or even mentioned about using any of the photos either verbally or written and I feel he should have asked us to sign a 'model release' form for the use of using our sons photo to advertise his business has it is being used for his own commercial use - am I right in thinking this way?
In February we found out that he was using photos of my baby's photo (aged 3 months when photographed) on his website (through my sister spotting them) which we asked him to remove and not use our sons photos but we had no qualms about him using any of the pictures of us (the adults) although I would have thought it would be courteous to at least ask/mention. Then today we have found out (off my uncle) that he has put our sons photo on 5000 leaflets advertising his business, photography sessions and prices which have been circulating since before February.
He has made no attempt to redeem the uncirculated ones from stores (obviously nothing can be done about the ones posted through letterboxes) and never bothered to mention it to us that he has used them even though these had already been produced and put out for advertising before I previously contacted him.
Now my thing is - he never once asked or even mentioned about using any of the photos either verbally or written and I feel he should have asked us to sign a 'model release' form for the use of using our sons photo to advertise his business has it is being used for his own commercial use - am I right in thinking this way?