EEEKKK!!!! I'm logging on now to pull off all my pictures - I doubt any of them are worth stealing, but I would be insanely angered to see a photo of mine being used without credit to my name at the very least.
rg2 On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Bob W <[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)" ?? > > > > Nope. > > > > You've given the right to sell it, not compensate you for it, > > and that "shared with others" clause in regards to what > > you've deleted is a very wide country indeed. > > > > They're using that phrase to cover themselves. What I infer from it is that > they will make use of anything posted on Facebook for any purpose, but > they're not going to store and maintain it separately from the account where > they found it. > > So if you delete it they won't go chasing around looking for another copy to > use. But when they use a picture they won't try to find out if it belongs to > someone else (who may have deleted it). > > Bob > > > -- > 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. -- All knowledge has value. -- 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.
