On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> wrote: > 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). >
And the idiots at the ad agency forgot the difference between clearing copyright and ensuring they had model releases. CC only covers you on copyright. The Photog in that case was mildly silly, the ad agency was just frikkin stupid for not realizing they needed model releases for CC images from Flickr just like any other image they might use with a identifiable individual. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
