Pictures on website

[Paul Finn]

Hi,

Recently done a lot of high spec work subcontracting and would love to put the pics on my website. However, the company I worked for asked me not to and said something about a 2 year licence?????

I know the renderer who worked for them last has set up his own swimming pool website and used pics of there jobs and they are apparently taking it further, which is understandable, as it's not his work.

Im not claiming that I build swimming pools or steam rooms from scratch, I simply want potential customers to see pictures of work that I have tiled.

Anyone know if im allowed to put the pics up? legally?

Ta

Paul

 

[Qwerty]

Did you agree to a contract? Did you have permission to take and/ or use photos? My understanding is things are slightly different if in private compared to if in public. Public is fair game, but your case could well be the exception.

 

[Paul Finn]

yes, contract signed. No mention of the use of pictures though

 

[Andy Allen]

Are you subbing to a tiling firm that did the contract or is it your tiling business and your contracting direct to the building firm..

 

[Paul Finn]

I was sub contracting, to a swimming pool/spa firm..... there jobs... my tiling.

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

Im sure dave dpf would know nore about this as its the sector he works in. If its your work and nothing has been signed then go for it.

 

[radim]

I think that building firm should ask you for permition to use pics of your work.....

 

[Colour Republic]

Have no idea what this '2 year license' refers to? My guess is that it is something they have made up off the cuff to sound official. However seeing as you are the sub-contractor then it isn't really your job as you are 'just' the installer if you'll forgive me.

At the end of the day it is down to their good will if they allow you to show the pictures on your company website. It is their job and rightly they can show it off as their work, as it is them that designed/commissioned it. They get the praise if it is pulled off and also carry the can if it goes **** up.

I have to say it's a tough one. For the record i've allowed sub-contractors to display images or jobs they've worked on of mine on their websites, yet sometimes they show 'compeleted' images that show 20% of what they did and 80% of the other stuff which makes it look good. The problem comes when my company claims to have done something and suddenly the same images are shown somewhere else. That is a conflict of interest.

If you were to ask me if you could display photos of the before/during/after OF YOUR WORK, i'd have no problem as it is you that did the work, but if you asked me if you could display photos after the whole project was completed with it being decorated and staged then i might have a bit more of a problem.

I could link you to 2 websites of sub-contractors who have worked for me and on both they are displaying jobs which they claim as their own, yet in reality they only completed a tiny part of those jobs. In fact one of them had 80% of his images from my jobs yet used it to luanch his own business from

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Well as far as i know its down to the actual photo , if you took the pic's then they are your property, if you are piking there pics then you have no right to steal there images, but if you took the pic's on your camera -phone on site then they are your property , if it was a picture of say a human/modal then you would need there permission..... PM me the company and i will tell you if i know them and if they are dangerous ,i would keep it between me and you.

 

[Colour Republic]

Well as far as i know its down to the actual photo , if you took the pic's then they are your property,

yes and my company fitted out which part?

 

[John Benton]

Did you supply the sky in that pic Rob?

 

[Colour Republic]

Now you're being stupid John. I didn't have enough left from my last job. :mad2:

The carpet in the forground was mine. Royal red from memory but don't hold me to it.

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

yes and my company fitted out which part?

Yes my uncle used to wallpaper inside the palace , and yes you own that picture YFC.........

 

[Paul Finn]

Theres just a few pics, as i said, pools not filled, decoration not completed, just simply my tiling work

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Nice work Paul did you do the rendering and screeding as well ?.
is that a white tile band at the top of the blue pool ? cant see lol.
the black pool at the end, very cheeky putting that big-box on your work !! .
thanks for posting the pictures ! i love looking at swimming pool tiling

 

[Paul Finn]

Nice work Paul did you do the rendering and screeding as well ?.
is that a white tile band at the top of the blue pool ? cant see lol.
the black pool at the end, very cheeky putting that big-box on your work !! .
thanks for posting the pictures ! i love looking at swimming pool tiling

Thanks Dave...Didn't do the rendering, although I may aswell have. They guy who did it was just appalling knowing that there was a final finish been laid on top of his work... no care or neatness at all....spent most of the time feathering stuff out to put it right... anyway.... that's another story lol. got there in the end!

When u say a white band im assuming u mean the top coping or edge tile that falls down 150mm into the pool skimmers? - or do u mean the wavy effect tile on the wall? lol

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Thanks paul yep i was talking about the tiles going into the skimmers and top part of the pool under the copings mate .

 

[Paul Finn]

yep, that's just a porcelain tile mate following on from the pool surround, 10mm thick, skimmed up to befour tiling mosaic's so nice flush finish

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Yes Paul just looked at your web -site ( nice site mate ) , see what you mean ,you do need some examples of your pool /work there, and you are in a good area for work, i have done loads of pools in cheshire over the years Alderley edge and around ......

 

[Paul Finn]

Yes Paul just looked at your web -site ( nice site mate ) , see what you mean ,you do need some examples of your pool /work there, and you are in a good area for work, i have done loads of pools in cheshire over the years Alderley edge and around ......

Thanks Dave...Give it a couple of month then ill upload them

 

[thompsonbrown]

I take pics of all my work. Before, During and after.
I explain to the customer its good to keep a good record of work carried out in case of any problems that may arise in the future.
I always ask for permission and give my customer a copy on disk of the pics.
But as far as I'm aware, any pics you take you own all intellectual property rights. It may be different if you were asked before hand not to take pics.