Posting photos to a forum

hoochhooch Registered Users Posts: 4 Beginner grinner
edited April 7, 2009 in Mind Your Own Business
I posted photos to a forum which i am now no longer a member to.
The person who runs the forum has blocked my acsess to the forum so that i cant remove them, i politely asked them to remove them and and was told no.
Could somebody please clarify the legal issue on this for me
thank you
Hooch

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2009
    hooch wrote:
    I posted photos to a forum which i am now no longer a member to.
    The person who runs the forum has blocked my acsess to the forum so that i cant remove them, i politely asked them to remove them and and was told no.
    Could somebody please clarify the legal issue on this for me
    thank you
    Hooch
    Are they attached photos, or links from your website? If they were links you could just break the links?
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  • BlakerBlaker Registered Users Posts: 294 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2009
    hooch wrote:
    I posted photos to a forum which i am now no longer a member to.
    The person who runs the forum has blocked my acsess to the forum so that i cant remove them, i politely asked them to remove them and and was told no.
    Could somebody please clarify the legal issue on this for me
    thank you
    Hooch

    What are the forum's terms of service? Maybe when you clicked 'yes' to the user agreement you inadvertently gave them the rights to use your photos even after you left the group?
    Can you go back and read the user agreement?
  • hoochhooch Registered Users Posts: 4 Beginner grinner
    edited April 6, 2009
    There was no user agreement. The photos were uploaded straight from my pc.
  • The MackThe Mack Registered Users Posts: 602 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2009
    They belong to him then. You uploaded them to the internet.
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  • BlakerBlaker Registered Users Posts: 294 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2009
    hooch wrote:
    There was no user agreement. The photos were uploaded straight from my pc.

    Are you sure? Practically every forum has a user agreement or terms of service- usually when you join the forum, when you choose your user name etc, you click on a box that says "i agree", or sometimes the forum just has their terms of service listed in the small print in their faq or their 'about this site'.
    Are you able to post link to the forum?
  • hoochhooch Registered Users Posts: 4 Beginner grinner
    edited April 7, 2009
    Blaker wrote:
    Are you sure? Practically every forum has a user agreement or terms of service- usually when you join the forum, when you choose your user name etc, you click on a box that says "i agree", or sometimes the forum just has their terms of service listed in the small print in their faq or their 'about this site'.
    Are you able to post link to the forum?


    this is the link http://rgonots-sylph.net/cpg1410/index.php
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,962 moderator
    edited April 7, 2009
    hooch wrote:
    this is the link http://rgonots-sylph.net/cpg1410/index.php
    I didn't see a TOS link there either. You could probably initiate legal action for copyright infringement and force them to comply, but it's likely to cost you a lot of money. Only you can say whether it would be worth it.
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  • BlakerBlaker Registered Users Posts: 294 Major grins
    edited April 7, 2009
    Richard wrote:
    I didn't see a TOS link there either. You could probably initiate legal action for copyright infringement and force them to comply, but it's likely to cost you a lot of money. Only you can say whether it would be worth it.


    Usually when you register for the site ( and the OP had to have registered, because the site requires a user name and password) , after you enter all your registration info, a box pops up with the user agreement ( usually a very long agreement in small print that nobody ever reads, they just click " I agree").
    So the OP could possibly re-register in order to get to the part where you ''agree'' to the terms, and then he can read the terms that he signed up for .

    I wonder if the OP left on bad terms so the moderator is not accomodating him because of this?

    Perhaps a certified letter to the site's ISP stating that the site is using copyrighted photos without permission and that you request they be removed so you don't have to take legal action?
    ( of course, unless you've registered the copyright to those photos, no lawyer would be able take this to a court of law, but the forum moderator and the ISP don't have to know that).

    ( Of course, before doing this you might want to be sure that you didn't sign away any rights in your user agreement when you signed up to use the site. If you agreed that the photos could be left up after you left, or if you didn't take them down in a timely manner before you quit the site, then you really have no standing.)
  • hoochhooch Registered Users Posts: 4 Beginner grinner
    edited April 7, 2009
    Blaker wrote:
    Usually when you register for the site ( and the OP had to have registered, because the site requires a user name and password) , after you enter all your registration info, a box pops up with the user agreement ( usually a very long agreement in small print that nobody ever reads, they just click " I agree").
    So the OP could possibly re-register in order to get to the part where you ''agree'' to the terms, and then he can read the terms that he signed up for .

    I wonder if the OP left on bad terms so the moderator is not accomodating him because of this?

    Perhaps a certified letter to the site's ISP stating that the site is using copyrighted photos without permission and that you request they be removed so you don't have to take legal action?
    ( of course, unless you've registered the copyright to those photos, no lawyer would be able take this to a court of law, but the forum moderator and the ISP don't have to know that).

    ( Of course, before doing this you might want to be sure that you didn't sign away any rights in your user agreement when you signed up to use the site. If you agreed that the photos could be left up after you left, or if you didn't take them down in a timely manner before you quit the site, then you really have no standing.)
    Ok story is this is a linkshell to a game that i and my children were members to.we were members for a year but decided to move to another link shell in the game. i told the leader we wanted to leave and he imediately booted us from the shell blocking me from removeing the pictures. Im not bothered about the photos of me on there but i want the pictures of my children removed.
  • BlakerBlaker Registered Users Posts: 294 Major grins
    edited April 7, 2009
    hooch wrote:
    Ok story is this is a linkshell to a game that i and my children were members to.we were members for a year but decided to move to another link shell in the game. i told the leader we wanted to leave and he imediately booted us from the shell blocking me from removeing the pictures. Im not bothered about the photos of me on there but i want the pictures of my children removed.

    I don't blame you!
    Send the moderator another email stating that unless he allows you to remove your photos your lawyer will be contacting his ISP provider.

    Good luck with this, it must be very frustrating!
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