Disabled Daughter’s Images From Old Article Is Being Used Maliciously On Social Media
My daughter’s who’s now 9 was born with a rare disability, a fairly visible one. When she was young, an editor for the Press Association reached out to me and her mother about writing an article about her. At the time it seemed like a good idea, mainly to spread awareness.
So we did it, and the article went out to all of the news outlets who created their own article.
Today, about 7 years later, we’re discovering the images used in the articles for clickbait Facebook and Twitter posts, some just to gather likes and some with more malicious intent, the comments too are quite distressing.
Essentially, I’m asking if there’s anything we can do to have the original articles removed? I’ve emailed AP directly but am yet receive a response.
Given Facebook’s latest stance on “free speech” and Twitter being… well, Twitter, I don’t expect them to do anything.
Unfortunately, the contract does state that the AP have full access to distribution of how they choose.
I fully understand we signed up for this, but I guess we were a little too naive to expect this to happen.
The contract, coming in a .docx format contains the following text:
Thank you for agreeing to share your story exclusively with PA.
You agree that:
- You will share your story about your battle with ill health.
You will make yourself available to be photographed and you will provide us with any photographs or other items that are relevant to your story.
You will not give any other interview to any other publication, national or regional newspaper, magazine, radio or TV programme or any other media outlet without our permission.
You confirm that your story is true.
You understand that PA will own all the rights in the story which is written as a result of your interview with us.
You give PA permission to use anywhere in print, broadcast or online all the photos and/or video that you give us to accompany your story.
You understand that your story may be published anywhere in the world.
We were also not paid for this article.
ETA: should have mentioned, all photos used were our own, we took them and provided them to the PA
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