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). -- 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.
