Legal Question in Intellectual Property in New York

The answer to your question depends on the contract you signed with the dance school when you enrolled your daughter. Very often, these contracts have a blanket permission to use photographs of individual children and of the classes embedded in them. If you signed the contract that has such a clause, there is nothing you can do about the fact that the dance school chose to exercise its right to use under that clause. You can, however, try to prevent future use by rescinding your permission to use in writing. If they insist that they have a contract and intend to use that clause in the future, well, there are many other dance schools and dance teachers around; use one of them and watch out for the language giving the school the right to use your child's likeness in its advertising.

However, if the contract does NOT have such a clause, you can demand that the school take down your daughter's picture immediately.

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