On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Rebekah <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Happened to me all the time with the equine photos. Dave > > 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
