Detlev, Thanks a lot for replying and for the TOS link. OK, I have just scanned the TOS and it seems to have nothing in there to outright prevent Picasa pictures from being used on third party sites. In fact, it sounds quite a bit like the YouTube TOS - at least in it's intent - with one intent case that's a bit different.
On YouTube, within some limits which are mostly advertising related, I can embed any video and without asking for any permissions. However, the video owner is able to set their videos not to be embeddable and if set then it applies equally to anyone wanting to embed it. With Picasa, it seems that the picture owners need to be made aware of where their pictures are going to be used. In my case, I am meshing up a site from all sorts of third party content. So, if on my own site, I let users create profile pages with all sorts of pictures, it seems perfectly OK. I could even have them log into Google through one of those authentication schemes (which I need to start using) with an explanation that they need to do so in order to verify that it is them who is wanting to use their Picasa pictures on my site. The only piece that is missing and that I do not see and that I was somewhat expecting is at least some watermarking or some other requirement that would let the site users at large, to know that certain pictures are coming from Picasa. A non usable case would be one where the pictures themselves are watermarked. Regards, Zdravko On Feb 22, 10:22 am, Detlev Schwabe <[email protected]> wrote: > All photos and videos on Picasa Web belong to the users who uploaded them. > The default license is ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, meaning that all rights are with > the owner of the photo and that you cannot use them anywhere on third party > sites. > The Picasa Web Data API TOS is > here:http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/terms.html > It's paragraphs 5 and 8, which regulate the use of the service and the > content of the site. > > > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:02 AM, zdravko <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > Are Picasa TOS at all similar to YouTube's, when it comes to being > > able to use Picasa's photos on third party sites ? > > > I've read the TOS but was left with the impression that they were end > > user oriented because I have not seen anything that was related to API > > and developers. > > > Would someone please reply with a link to TOS that are for this sort > > of use? > > > Take care, > > zdravko > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-picasa-data-api% > > [email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api?hl=en.
