Thread: Photographers and performers who own the rights to their images beware

The Consumerist has noticed a seemingly slight but very important (and disturbing) change in Facebook’s terms of service, regarding user-generated content.

In short, all of the content you’ve ever uploaded on Facebook can be used, modified or even sublicensed by Facebook in every possible way - even if you quit the service.

see more info here

Facebook: All Your Stuff Is Ours, Even If You Quit

all in all very shady especially for those who use Facebook to get their work seen by others

"You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof."

i'm no legal buff to me this is ringing alarm bells and thought i should pass it on x

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Oh I dont use facebook..

Ophelia x

its the same on myspace with music as far i know- by loading things to their site you are giving them permition to do with it what they see fit techincally.

thank you for the heads up!!!!!!! xx

yes I thought it was strange that one of my friends profile pictures was advertising blackberry uk.

It's annoying, but the best way round that is to watermark stuff. Ok, so if someone's determined they could probably take it off, but it might make them think twice about using your pics.

Originally Posted by pinup-parade

It's annoying, but the best way round that is to watermark stuff. Ok, so if someone's determined they could probably take it off, but it might make them think twice about using your pics.

A good editor can easily get around watermarked images no matter how invasive the watermark is. :thumbsdown:

...but if you use one, you're making it harder for them to nick the image. they've got to spend time removing the watermark, rather than just going ahead and nicking the image straight off.

This is going to cause a right old furore methinks! Coz, in the UK we can fight that AND win as they are in fact illegal in what they are doing. And it all sits on TWO words "FULLY PAID" for the company has NOT paid the photographer a penny in royalties or in buying said mage for the companies own use. This is just another American scam on images as most American companies reckon that ANY and ALL images on the Internet are totally free to use by themselfs with no come back. Various companies have been and are being nailed to a wall over this bullshit they do to cheat people out of images.

BUT, it will still take a nice BIG court case to get a decent ruling on this and the practice stopped. One CAN always bombard the company with emails telling them they are stealing and HOW they are stealing etc.

If Myspace does this then my company will send them a letter from my solicitor and all images will be removed AND the newspapers will get a nice write up about it.

Originally Posted by The Minister Of Magic.

This is going to cause a right old furore methinks! Coz, in the UK we can fight that AND win as they are in fact illegal in what they are doing. And it all sits on TWO words "FULLY PAID" for the company has NOT paid the photographer a penny in royalties or in buying said mage for the companies own use. This is just another American scam on images as most American companies reckon that ANY and ALL images on the Internet are totally free to use by themselfs with no come back. Various companies have been and are being nailed to a wall over this bullshit they do to cheat people out of images.

Thanks for the clarification MOM - you are a goldmine of helpful information as always! :twothumbs:

What I don't understand is why Facebook have bothered to do this - surely they realise that simply stating "we hereby reserve the right to do something completely illegal" does not magically make what the are planning to do any less illegal? :daft:

Or are they hoping that by using random legalise at people they will manage to bully them into accepting being ripped off?

Also, just to clarify (and sorry if this sounds like a ludicrously naive query ops: ), I am currently working under the impression that any picture of me, whether it is of me performing, modelling or whatever is the intellectual property of the photographer who took it rather than myself. Does anyone mind confirming whether or not this is correct?