Thanks Mark This makes me feel a little better :-) Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself.
On Nov 12, 2009 22:01 "Mark Roberts" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
