On 4 September 2014 13:38, martin f krafft <madd...@madduck.net> wrote: > also sprach Aigars Mahinovs <aigar...@gmail.com> [2014-09-04 12:33 -0700]: >> On a side note: I am note aware of any legal or privacy problems >> occuring from uploading public CC/GPL-licensed photos to either >> Google Plus or Flickr (paid version in both cases) > > Do their terms of service not include any form of implicit copyright > transferral, e.g. what Facebook does? IANAL, but if you upload > a picture to Facebook, you are giving it to them for whatever their > use may be. If that use is in violation of the licence on the data, > then I'd say *you* as the uploader are the one breaching the > licence.
http://blog.flickr.net/en/2011/05/13/at-flickr-your-photos-are-always-yours/ The terms do not seem to have materially changed in the interim. This appears to be similar to the license given to Facebook at <https://www.facebook.com/terms.php>: > 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. and Google+ at <https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/>: > You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which > you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, > posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, > worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, > modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute > any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. > This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, > distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services > as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services. _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
