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My house on a magazine cover?

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 Pids 02 Apr 2014

Saw a publication today that featured my house on their front cover, feel violated, no one advised us of this, features my house and cars - just a random shot but article inside was relating to local issue so hence the local picture - should we have been advised?
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 Rob Exile Ward 02 Apr 2014
In reply to Pids:

No.
In reply to Pids:

'fraid not, shot on public land. If it was identifiable as your house to randoms and was insinuating support for, advertising something or the location of an event or service then you may have a cause for a row.
Jim C 02 Apr 2014
In reply to Pids:
Maybe if your kids were in it, but otherwise, I think the other posters are right.
In reply to Pids:

Ask for the original and frame it. Failing that just frame the cover.
 ByEek 03 Apr 2014
In reply to Pids:

Were you and your future wife outside sunbathing naked? Are you Prince William?
 Fraser 03 Apr 2014
In reply to Pids:

As others have said, other than doing it as a courtesy, no.
 RomTheBear 03 Apr 2014
In reply to Pids:

Your house is probably already visible on google street view anyway ?
 Clarence 03 Apr 2014
In reply to Pids:

I moved a photographer off my lawn once and he just took a photograph from the other side of the hedge with a longer lens. There was nothing I could do to prevent the photograph being published as long as they did not identify the occupants or make any derogatory statements about the place. I was not happy as the photographer was from a magazine with whom I had previous grievance but a legal friend advised me that anything that can be seen from a public place can be used for neutral illustrative purposes. Maybe I should have hung a bedsheet out of the window with "F*** You" on it?
 aln 03 Apr 2014
In reply to Pids:

> feel violated,

Really?
 Enty 03 Apr 2014
In reply to Clarence:

> Maybe I should have hung a bedsheet out of the window with "F*** You" on it?

Or shoved his long lens where the sun don't shine?

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In reply to Pids:

> Saw a publication today that featured my house on their front cover, feel violated,

You feel violated? Are you kidding? How on earth have you been violated? Talk about a massive overreaction!
ceri 03 Apr 2014
In reply to Pids:

if I saw my house on a magazine cover I'd think it was quite cool. Unless it was advertising "UK's most messy gardens" or something worse...
 Fat Bumbly2 03 Apr 2014
Depends on the magazine, I suppose.

In reply to Fat Bumbly2:

Swingers Monthly?
In reply to Clarence:

Then you'd be committing an offence....possibly.
Removed User 03 Apr 2014
In reply to Jim C:

Makes no difference if his kids are in the pic or not. If the pic was taken from public land the photographer isn't required to inform anyone that a photo was taken.
 Timmd 03 Apr 2014
In reply to Removed User:
Organisations which work with children (and schools) have to get the parent/guardian's permission if children are photographed though?
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Lusk 03 Apr 2014
In reply to Pids:

Can you post a picture of your house in your gallery so UKC can pass judgement?
Jim C 04 Apr 2014
In reply to Timmd:

> Organisations which work with children (and schools) have to get the parent/guardian's permission if children are photographed though?

My wife child minds, and therefore at times we are in our garden with our own , and other peoples children, I like you, would have thought that being on our own property would have given us, and other's children some kind of protection. ( no matter where the photographer was standing)
What if the children were being protected from an abusive parent,and their whereabouts was not wanted to be public knowledge? Having them splashed across a magazine outside an address would not be helpful .
 Timmd 04 Apr 2014
In reply to Jim C:

That's what I'm thinking, the law can be funny though. It might be worth a google...
 Carolyn 04 Apr 2014
In reply to Timmd:

I don't think it's necessarily a legal requirement, rather a courtesy (and protecting themselves).

Wikipedia suggests it's only an offence to take photographs of children in a public place if the images could be considered pornographic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_and_the_law
In reply to Pids:

I'd probably be more concerned about those things I can do something about. Like my flickr account.
 Duncan Bourne 04 Apr 2014
In reply to Pids:

You jammy bugger. I wish my house was on a magazine cover. I'm jealous now

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