On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:38 PM, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2094276&l=db771&id=744116392 >> >> I like the photo, Charles. >> >> However, I'm leery of the FaceBook terms of use and the rights it grants >> for User Content. See >> http://www.facebook.com/terms.php?ref=pf >> >> particularly this portion of the above: >> >> "...By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically >> grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to >> the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully >> paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, >> publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole >> or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, >> advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the >> promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into >> other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of >> the foregoing. ..." > > Weren't they also involved in a lawsuit where they took images of an > underage girl who had posted them to her facebook page and sold them to some > cell phone company in Australia that used the images for their advertising > campaign ... unknown to the girl or her parents. > > And tried to blow the family off when they found out and objected to her > image being used for commercial purposes?
Nope, that was somebody trolling flickr for advertising shots and somebody putting stuff up under Creative Commons license that they did not have unrestricted rights to. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
