Jens wrote: >I have read, that whenever you submit an image to Facebook, you give >up all rights to yopur photo. It now belongs 100 % to Facebook.
Wrong. Facebook gets the right to use the image for promoting Facebook. And only as long as you have the image *on* Facebook. As soon as you remove it, they lose these rights. Pretty reasonable for a free service. A few months ago they tried to change their TOS to allow them to use your image (including for purposes beyond promotion and advertising) even after you took it down, but there was such an outcry that they backed down very quickly. This incident is probably at the root of the "you give up all rights" urban legend. Even that overzealous TOS didn't make the photographer give up all rights (the photographer could still copy, sell, modify, license the image). Also, if your photos on Facebook have recognizable people in them, Facebook would still have to get a model release. See the Flickr/Virgin Mobile fiasco already mentioned in this thread :) -- 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.
