John Sessoms wrote:

>From: Bran Everseeking
>> A friend twittered this and I found the facebook part to be true at
>> least.
>> 
>> http://www.pdnpulse.com/2009/11/warning-facebook-and-myspace-strip-photo-copyright-data.html
>
>Goes back to earlier concerns regarding that "Orphaned Works" copyright 
>legislation.
>
>Someone pulls your image off one of the sites without your permission, 
>someone else takes it from them ... and pretty soon anyone can take & 
>use your image for commercial purposes without compensating you.
>
>It's already happened; some teenage girl's myspace photo ended up being 
>used by an Australian cell phone company for their ad campaign.

That was a different issue: The photographer himself put the photo on
Flickr and gave it Creative Commons *commercial* licensing (without
understanding what this meant).


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