{"id":1801,"date":"2010-12-15T07:27:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T07:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2010-12-15T07:27:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T07:27:19","slug":"photographing-nativity-plays-is-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1801","title":{"rendered":"Photographing nativity plays is okay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-medium wp-image-1803\" style=\"width:300px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Nativity-Play.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Nativity-Play-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Parents can film nativity plays<\/div>\r\n<\/div>Parents up and down the UK being told yet again that they are not allowed to take pictures of their children\u2019s school nativity play for \u2018data protection reasons\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Data Protection Act does not stop anyone from taking photographs of family, friends, their pet dog or anyone else for that matter as long as the photos are for their own use. This includes the use of photos on websites such as Facebook and Flickr.<\/p>\n<p>As long as you do not attempt to publish the photos to a wider audience or sell them on for financial reasons you should normally be fine to \u2018snap away\u2019. However it is advisable to obtain the permission of the individuals included in your photos where possible.<\/p>\n<p>The Information Commissioner&#8217;s guidelines are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ico.gov.uk\/upload\/documents\/library\/data_protection\/detailed_specialist_guides\/taking_photographs_in_schools.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents can film nativity plays Parents up and down the UK being told yet again that they are not allowed to take pictures of their children\u2019s school nativity play for \u2018data protection reasons\u2019. The Data Protection Act does not stop anyone from taking photographs of family, friends, their pet dog or anyone else for that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}