On Nov 12, 2009, at 7:28 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
Scott Loveless wrote:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Bran Everseeking
<[email protected]> wrote:
A friend twittered this and I found the facebook part to be true at
least.
http://www.pdnpulse.com/2009/11/warning-facebook-and-myspace-strip-photo-copyright-data.html
Using Facespace and Mybook for photo hosting is silly. People
uploading anything more serious than snapshots of their drunk friends
drinking drinks really need to find somewhere else to host their
photos. Picasa and Flickr are free, easier to use, and allow the
photographer to specify copyright. I'm not making excuses for the
abysmal behavior of Tom Anderson and Mark Zuckerberg, but calling
oneself a photographer and then telling all their friends to check
out
their slammin' pics yo! on Facebook is, well, dumb.
Quite right. And however much I suspect the motives of anything
Facebook does, I'm pretty confident the stripping of metadata is
mainly to conserve storage space and bandwidth (the same reason
Photoshop's "Save for Web" module strips metadata).
Exactly. I strip metadata from every photo I show on the web,
primarily because I use PS "Save for Web." I show some photos on
Facebook, because I have a lot of friends there who want to see them.
They're lo-res pics that are useless for anything other than web
display, and anyone who might want one for a website wouldn't purchase
it anyway. However, I have sold some hi-res images because the lo-res
version was shown on the web. Facebook's policy isn't a big deal. Like
you, I don't like everything they do, but I enjoy being able to
connect with long-gone friends from all over the planet.
Paul
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