Dario Bonazza <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please check the conditions for publishing your pictures on FB and then
> decide.
> http://www.facebook.com/terms.php?ref=pf
>
> The key concept:
>
> For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and
> videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission,
> subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a
> non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license
> to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP
> License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your
> account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not
> deleted it.
IANAL, but doesn't this basically translate, despite the scary
legalese, to: "If you post a picture, you're authorizing us
to _display_ that picture, subject to your privacy settings,
until you delete the picture (unless you've given somebody
else permission to display it and they haven't deleted their
copy yet)" ??
That doesn't sound scary; it sounds like how photo-sharing
works. The only part that gives me pause is the "transferable,
sub-licensable" bit, which makes it sound as though they can
sell other companies permission to display your pics off-site,
and I don't know why they'd need that for the site to work as
expected, but it still sounds like that goes away when you
remove the picture from FaceBook. Maybe that part is for
third-party apps that work with the site?
I'd like to see it constrained a little more than it is, but
I don't find it startling. But, as I said, IANAL (and may be
insufficiently paranoid in today's IP climate).
-- Glenn
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