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Re: [LUG] photo ownership

 

On 06/04/11 09:34, tom wrote:
On 06/04/11 09:28, Paul Sutton wrote:
Looking at the diaspora website under ownership it says

You own your pictures, and you shouldn’t have to give that up just to
share them. You maintain ownership of everything you share on
Diaspora, giving you full control over how it's distributed.

does this imply that a photo uploaded to somewhere like facebook then
becomes the ownership of facebook or something, can someone explain
further please.
Yup - facebook claim ownership of it.

Actually, they don't. Quoting from their terms and conditions (http://www.facebook.com/terms.php?ref=pf):

"You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:

1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it."

Anthony
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