Just about every website that you can post pictures to has the same non-exclusive license agreement. If you want to post your pictures on a photosharing website, you pretty much have to expect that the pictures will be shared with other people. If that is a problem, don't post pictures on Flickr or any other website that you don't control.
People post pictures and are shocked when people look at them and link to them in other places. Flickr has it's problems, but stealing your pictures isn't one of them. On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Doug Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-05-25 16:20, David Parsons wrote: >> >> What do you mean? The person who took the picture owns them. Flickr >> doesn't take anyone's copyrights. > > Just like the furor over the third-party APIs, a bit of Google searching > will provide a much better report than I could manage. They were at one > time claiming in their ToS non-exclusive rights to do pretty much whatever > they wanted with any photo uploaded to their service, without notice, query, > or payment to the owner of the photo. Further, their third-party APIs at > one time allowed third-party application developers access to uploaded > content in defiance of the privacy settings applied by the owner/uploader of > said content, if my memory of the details is accurate. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > 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. > -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- 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.
