[header] How to legally combat private photo publication [title] Confirm your eligibility. [step] Generally, if you want to register a copyright in the photos you must have created the photos yourself. [substeps] You can't register a copyright in photos if you are the subject and not the creator-except if the photo can be categorized as a " work for hire " that you commissioned a photographer to create for you.
[header] How to legally combat private photo publication [title] Confirm your eligibility. [step] Generally, if you want to register a copyright in the photos you must have created the photos yourself. [substeps] You can't register a copyright in photos if you are the subject and not the creator-except if the photo can be categorized as a " work for hire " that you commissioned a photographer to create for you.
While you can register a private photo for work by your own work, it may be hard to register a copyright in photographs that aren't the creator's work. [title] Provide approval before you publish your work. You cannot register a copyrighted work if you already have a copy of it. In this case, you would register the original of the work already in the library for registration. In other words, the only person authorized to guarantee that an individual can actually have a photograph published is the creator. The publisher of a photograph registered with your copyright may not be able to issue that picture once it's published. However, you do have copyright ownership in any photos you create-even selfies-from the moment you create them. This means you have the exclusive right to publish or distribute those photos.