Retrieving Photographs from someone elses property.

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Hey all!
I don't post here often, I normally just read the advice on here but I have a question i've been wanting answered for a while....

A year and a half ago I attended a high school on the Isle of Wight, for my Photography A Level. For my final piece I created 3 large panoramic photos, each when printed were 3 A3 bits of paper wide. After I finished school I was in hospital for 2 weeks and then in a recovery period, it never crossed my mind to go get my photos back.

Now I have tried on 3 attempts and have been told they are the schools property as they were printed on school paper, although they were taken on my camera, processed on my computer.

I have some bad feelings with the school over several things but I feel they do not deserve to keep the photo's simply because they own the 9 pieces of A3 paper. Not sure if there is any response I can give them when I ask for them back?

Thanks :)
 
wootton-snapper said:
Hey all!
I don't post here often, I normally just read the advice on here but I have a question i've been wanting answered for a while....

A year and a half ago I attended a high school on the Isle of Wight, for my Photography A Level. For my final piece I created 3 large panoramic photos, each when printed were 3 A3 bits of paper wide. After I finished school I was in hospital for 2 weeks and then in a recovery period, it never crossed my mind to go get my photos back.

Now I have tried on 3 attempts and have been told they are the schools property as they were printed on school paper, although they were taken on my camera, processed on my computer.

I have some bad feelings with the school over several things but I feel they do not deserve to keep the photo's simply because they own the 9 pieces of A3 paper. Not sure if there is any response I can give them when I ask for them back?

Thanks :)
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The copyright is yours but the paper is theirs. So is the ink.
 
Was printed on a cheapy laser printer so the quality isn't all great.
Just the fact they have done their best to not help me over the 3 years and this seems like something else!

Could we not come to an agreement so that they are burnt?!
 
If you still have the original files, forget it and put it down to experience.

I lost all my paintings that way after I left school, but they where gone for good, if you still have the original files you can get them re printed elsewhere.
 
You could probably argue the toss, send them a solicitors letter or seven but is it really worth it?
 
probably not worth it tbh, if you have the original files, just get a re print done :)
 
If it'll make you feel better, send them a letter, stating that as you own the copyright on the images, you expressly forbid the display, sale, editing, use in current or future lessons, or any form of re-purposing of the images in question, and suggest that rather than storing 9 sheets of useless paper, they may find that disposal of the same would be the sensible option.

Then forget it, have a good quality reprint made, and move on. Life's too short, even at your age, to be worrying about trivia like this.
 
Why does it bother you so much? They will have been in a skip a long time ago. Chances of keeping work are slim to none, and why are you so keen to get these back?

It will be a low quality print, that you will be able to get reprinted at much better quality. They are not selling the image, so no point chasing on about it.

It just seems to me you are using this as an excuse for you "Bad feelings" towards the school. Let it go, no point dwelling on bad feelings.

Think this lyric could be of use to you.

Basically what I'm trying to say to you is,
You don't achieve anything by letting the past rule within you,
Getting all pent up and angry about stuff just eats away inside you,
What's that other line of yours..
'If you can't forgive and forget,
How's this,
Forget forgivin' and just accept that that's it',
See that's how it's gotta be.
Then you can fall in love, get on with your life and be free",
 
ding76uk said:
Why does it bother you so much? They will have been in a skip a long time ago. Chances of keeping work are slim to none, and why are you so keen to get these back?

It will be a low quality print, that you will be able to get reprinted at much better quality. They are not selling the image, so no point chasing on about it.

It just seems to me you are using this as an excuse for you "Bad feelings" towards the school. Let it go, no point dwelling on bad feelings.
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The photo's are right at the front of the school in a 'pride of place' position and when asked who took them they don't actually even know it was me although do comment that a lot of people have asked the same thing.

I wanted them back to put on the wall of my new flat as I thought they would go well.

The fact the school gave them an E grade to me said they were crap to them and didn't want them any longer! So when I returned to school to see they liked them so much they decided to keep them I also ask the question of why I only got an E for them.
 
wootton-snapper said:
The photo's are right at the front of the school in a 'pride of place' position and when asked who took them they don't actually even know it was me although do comment that a lot of people have asked the same thing.

I wanted them back to put on the wall of my new flat as I thought they would go well.

The fact the school gave them an E grade to me said they were crap to them and didn't want them any longer! So when I returned to school to see they liked them so much they decided to keep them I also ask the question of why I only got an E for them.
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This all sounds very silly... You're doing undercover investigations to find out if the school knows who took the pictures?
 
Well I wouldn't want my crappy 'E' grade pics in a public place like that :lol:
 
wootton-snapper said:
The fact the school gave them an E grade to me said they were crap to them and didn't want them any longer! So when I returned to school to see they liked them so much they decided to keep them I also ask the question of why I only got an E for them.
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A whole GCSE is not one photograph or one piece. It also has written pieces, more coursework and an exam.

It sounds like you did well with this photo, but then not so well on the others, hence the E grade. Sorry to say, but only you got the E grade! Teachers mark to an exacting standard and work is called to be externally moderated, so the mark you got will be fair, and down to your not doing the work. Get over it, do it again at college or wherever, be proud that you already have your work on display in a public place, and move on.
 
You may find it a condition of you doing the course that anything produced as part of the course is actually their property. You would have to go back and check what you signed up for.

But why bother? if you want it for your new plce and have the orignal files just go and have it reprinted. Much better quality than having it on three pieces of paper too! Just make sure that you do actually have the rights to do so yourself first?
 
Elliott-Ness said:
Clearly the OP does not have any copies or the original file. That is why he wants it back.

I would be more annoyed of the lack of recognition that he took the pic. They are proudley displaying it, so whay not at least acknowledge it in a small print?

If the OP has copies, wouldn't mind seeing what the fuss is all about? But would he put it up here? ;)
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Thank you! Someone with some sense!
Have had no recognition for them at all, the teacher who marked them at an E was actually sacked and therefore everyones work re-marked, it is expected come results day I will have an A grade for them (according to new teacher) but I have not attended the school for a year so who knows!

I will find original copies of the photos to upload, they are pretty big @ 30,000px wide each.
 
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