On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:29:13PM -0400, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. scripsit: > Dario Bonazza <dario.bona...@virgilio.it> wrote: > > Please check the conditions for publishing your pictures on FB and then > > decide. > > http://www.facebook.com/terms.php?ref=pf > > > > The key concept: > > > > 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. > > IANAL, but doesn't this basically translate, despite the scary > legalese, to: "If you post a picture, you're authorizing us > to _display_ that picture, subject to your privacy settings, > until you delete the picture (unless you've given somebody > else permission to display it and they haven't deleted their > copy yet)" ??
Nope. You've given the right to sell it, not compensate you for it, and that "shared with others" clause in regards to what you've deleted is a very wide country indeed. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
