Under copyright laws, the photographer is the owner of the copyright in a photograph. Copyright attaches immediately upon creation and no registration is required for the photographs you take. Copyright confers the exclusive right to copy and distribute, among other things. So, yes, you have the legal right to say when and how your photographs are distributed. The fact that you gave your mother-in-law a copy of a picture does not give her the right to copy it or give copies to others. Under the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), this would include posting on an Internet site.

You should notify your mother-in-law that you do not want the pictures posted on the Internet (which can be dangerous, and some experts are advising people not to post photographs or information about their children on social networking sites) and ask her to remove them. If she refuses, you may contact Facebook (or whatever sites she is posting on) and demand that they remove your copyrighted pictures under the DMCA (instructions for how to do this for Facebook or other sites are on the respective sites). The legal requirements for such websites are stringent and they will respond in a timely manner.

Under copyright laws, the photographer is the owner of the copyright in a photograph. Copyright attaches immediately upon creation and no registration is required for the photographs you take. Copyright confers the exclusive right to copy and distribute, among other things. So, yes, you have the legal right to say when and how your photographs are distributed. The fact that you gave your mother-in-law a copy of a picture does not give her the right to copy it or give copies to others. Under the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), this would include posting on an Internet site.

You should notify your mother-in-law that you do not want the pictures posted on the Internet (which can be dangerous, and some experts are advising people not to post photographs or information about their children on social networking sites) and ask her to remove them. If she refuses, you may contact Facebook (or whatever sites she is posting on) and demand that they remove your copyrighted pictures under the DMCA (instructions for how to do this for Facebook or other sites are on the respective sites). The legal requirements for such websites are stringent and they will respond in a timely manner.

Under copyright laws, the photographer is the owner of the copyright in a photograph. Copyright attaches immediately upon creation and no registration is required for the photographs you take. Copyright confers the exclusive right to copy and distribute, among other things. So, yes, you have the legal right to say when and how your photographs are distributed. The fact that you gave your mother-in-law a copy of a picture does not give her the right to copy it or give copies to others. Under the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), this would include posting on an Internet site.

You should notify your mother-in-law that you do not want the pictures posted on the Internet (which can be dangerous, and some experts are advising people not to post photographs or information about their children on social networking sites) and ask her to remove them. If she refuses, you may contact Facebook (or whatever sites she is posting on) and demand that they remove your copyrighted pictures under the DMCA (instructions for how to do this for Facebook or other sites are on the respective sites). The legal requirements for such websites are stringent and they will respond in a timely manner.