I have read, that whenever you submit an image to Facebook, you give up all rights to yopur photo. It now belongs 100 % to Facebook. So, I don't submit phographjs to Facebook unless they are nearly useless.
Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. On Nov 12, 2009 20:41 "Adam Maas" <a...@mawz.ca> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
