Picturs of grandchildren on social network

[jackie boyce]

As a biological grandmother who is estranged from my daughter and have no contact with the grandchildren, can I legally be asked to remove pictures of my grandchildren from my social network site, these pictures are not distasteful in any way, I have no access to her sites where she displays the children and I uploaded one that I found on an open forum, I recieved a nasty inbox facebook message demanding to know where I got the pictures and that I take them down immediately and that she is consulting with her solicitor over the fact that I obtained pictures of minors without consent, the ages of my grandchildren are 3yrs, last seen when 3mths old and twins 12 days old, even thou I dont see my grandchildren I still love them and share their progress with my family and friends on my site which I might add is not open for all to view. Any help will be greatly appriciated.

[Buenchico]

You're free to display pictures of anyone on your website if you own the copyright to those pictures or if the copyright owner has given you consent (either specifically or by clearly placing the images into the public domain).

The copyright owner is normally the person who took the photograph. A parent or guardian has no specific rights in regard to the publication of images of their children. (For example I could legally take pictures of children in the street and put them on the internet. The children's parents would have no legal right to demand that I removed the pictures as I would hold the copyright in them).

So the issue here is not one of parenthood, but of copyright. If your daughter holds that copyright then she can legally demand that you remove them. But if someone else took the pictures then only that person can demand that you do so.

Chris

[Canary42]

Until you actually hear from her solicitors ('cos 1 she's probably bluffing and 2 if she isn't they will probably not support her anyway as per Chris' statement), just ignore it (and bar her from access to your site).

[jackie boyce]

Thank you for your replies