Ep. 2989 - Q&A: “What should I do if a brand uses my photo without permission?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we help a content creator navigate what to do when a brand uses their photo without permission. Learn how to approach the situation professionally—or when it might be better to let it go and move forward.
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| 0:48.3 | What should you do if a brand uses your photo without permission? |
| 0:57.1 | Let's say you have taken some images for your products or for your blog or for your social media. |
| 1:01.9 | Could be personal images, could be images that you have used for a business purpose, |
| 1:06.2 | but you otherwise have access to, like you have legal access to use these images. |
| 1:10.3 | And then all of a sudden, |
| 1:12.3 | you notice somebody else has used your photo. And that also might be an individual or a brand. |
| 1:17.9 | In this case, we're going to hear from a content creator who travels full time. So naturally, |
| 1:22.8 | they have lots of beautiful travel images. And they recently discovered that a company used one |
| 1:27.2 | of their photos that they had posted on Instagram. And they recently discovered that a company used one of their photos |
| 1:27.8 | that they had posted on Instagram, and they used this photo without asking, how should they respond? |
| 1:33.0 | Legal action isn't realistic in this case, just because that's complicated, that's expensive, |
| 1:38.4 | but ignoring it feels wrong and just kind of frustrating. So how can this person handle it |
| 1:43.7 | professionally while keeping |
| 1:45.3 | their focus on future growth? Because ultimately your best interests are probably not going to be |
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