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Look at your school’s policy manual. There’s likely a policy regarding what they can and cannot do with images of students. Every school I’ve worked for has some kind of policy around this. In all of them I’ve read you can opt out of photos being published, but there’s usually a caveat that by participating in any school sanctioned event, participation is considered consent to be shown in photos and video of the event.
In schools, they normally have parents fill out a form giving consent to use a student’s picture. There should be a way to revoke that consent.
It’s opt-out in a lot of districts now
Which country are you talking about? Us federal law required consent to opt-in. As far as I know, FERPA hasn’t received an update concerning that.
The US - with obvious exceptions, photos of students can be designated by a district as directory information (which many do, hence opt outs being common)
That’s interesting, I didn’t realize that a photograph counted as part of the directory information. I figured that was why photos are included in the list of items on the parent consent forms sent out every year.
It was my understanding (from admin, teacher professional orgs, and teacher unions) that pictures on websites and social media need consent to be posted. So we were told that any student without a consent form had to be edited out or blurred on any picture posted anywhere.
This is pretty hostile. “If you attend any school events then we own your image”? The fuck?
As someone who had done photography for school events, thie policy exists because I don’t know one kid from another, and when I have dozens of shots with 400 kids in them, some are going to slip through the cracks when photos are posted online.
You could also just not post those photos online?
Or if you must make such a careleess decision, blur out evey childs face
Or maybe make free, optional events optional and ask that parents that have their kids participating with the waiver.
If it’s that important to keep your kids out of any photos, they shouldn’t be attending the events in the first place. Even if ai don’t post pictures online, SOMEBODY will.
I’ve done photography for events in very sensitive situations, including an event at a boarding school for abused children facility in a secret location where the identities of children are kept secret so their abusive parents can’t find them. In that case I framed shots to not include areas where the kids were located, cut the video recordings any time a kid went up on stage for any of the presentation, I cut any audio where any child’s voice was noticeable among the crowd or any times a name was heard. With weeks of proper planning it can be done.
And the next day there were hundreds of pictures all over Facebook b cause everybody has a camera a in their pocket and I can’t control for that.
Hard agree.
In many cases, its a CYA policy just so they don’t have to ask permission for every single image. Hopefully they’re the respectful type that will either remove or blur the student upon request.
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Out of curiosity, is it just rights to use or ownership rights? Not saying the former is good, but it’s still better than the latter.
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That’s straight-up extortion and theft.
I mean, publics held functions usually mean to expected right to privacy, at least in the USA. No different than filming anything else in public.
I still would tell OP to check their handbook, and from there go the route of asking staff in the office if they can remove them.
Yes, schools are businesses these days. Businesses don’t want to actually do effort to get consent.
They also don’t want to be sued, so yes, this is the lowest effort way to limit their liability.
I’m from italy, i don’t think these kind of things exist in italian schools. At least i never saw them myself
Pretty sure it’s mandated by the EU
You may be able to use GDPR to get them removed, but it may be easier just to get the school to take them down.