Website photo copyright

Somebody took a picture of me off my website on the internet and used it without my permission. Can I tell the person to remove it as I don’t like what he said about me?

 

Yes, absolutely. If the picture was one that you took and you do not like it being used on someone’s website you can email the person responsible and tell him that copyright law prevents them from publishing your photo. Only just very recently someone I know did that – emailed the person who was looking after a website and demanded that the eight photos he published without his permission to be removed immediately because it was against copyright law. The other person did in fact remove all the photos immediately. In Australia, photographs have copyright when taken before May 1989 – for fifty years from the date the photo was taken. After May 1989 – 50 years from the date the photo was published (or supplied to the public). 

Copyright

I gave my idea for a really good song for a band to a bandleader. He wrote it down and he did not give me any credit for it. I thought anything I create will be automatically copyright. Is he right?

For copyright of a song to take place you would have had to materially express it – to write it out in full. You cannot copyright an abstract idea. Only when the idea, something you create, is expressly stated on paper and you put your name as the author of it and put a ‘c’ inside a circle will the song get copyright protection.