Bill, The issue is,... you are the only one with the headstone photo in your files. How will it be available in the future if you are the only one with it in your collection? Perhaps put it up later or send it to the cemetery to be in their database and/or local genealogy society. It should be accessible by more than one in a larger database. Tanya -----Original Message----- From: irl-carlow-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-carlow-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Roger Nowlan Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 1:02 PM To: irl-carlow@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-CARLOW] Cemetery photos: permission required? Bill, and all who responded, The person who requested that a picture be removed was a daughter and, after removing the picture , she responded: "Thank you for that I really do appreciate it ... any help you need in the future do not hesitate to contact ...." I have kept the tombstone picture in my files for future reference and am satisfied that there is no suggestion that I remove any other tombstones. I also seem to have made a new friend Thank You all, Roger http://nolanfamilies.org P.S. For anyone interested, I will be in County Carlow September 4th to 19th. The Nolan Clan Gathering is September 7-8 but otherwise I plan to explore a few areas related to my own Nowland/Nowlan/Nolan family in the Ballon, not to mention trying to sort out the many Nolan lines in that area. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Gawne Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 10:31 AM To: irl-carlow@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-CARLOW] Cemetery photos: permission required? Roger, and all, Roger Nowlan wrote: > The question therefore arises as to the legality and practice of > posting pictures of tombstones to the Internet. > > [...] In essence, the guidance offered states that “there is no legal > requirement that a family consent” but that one should “pull a photo, > if requested”. I do a lot with Find A Grave, where we have volunteer photographers going around to various cemeteries and photographing headstones. In general, the law considers headstones and grave markers of all sorts to be public monuments, so there's no law against photographing them that I've ever seen. I have many pictures of family headstones in St. Mullins cemetery, and I don't know of any policy against taking or posting such pictures. I think the policy given above is a very kind one, though I'd want to know how close the family member making the request was to the deceased. I'd be much more inclined to temporarily remove an image from the web for a bereaved spouse than for a great-granddaughter, just as an example. Roger, I think you're doing a very good thing by making your images available to those searching for information about their deceased relatives. Keep up the good work. -- Bill ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message