Facebook's Terms Regarding Photography

[Deevo101]

this is directly coped in whole from facebooks 'terms' page:

http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

"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."

i don't know if this is the right place to post this, and i couldn't find any other topics on here regarding this..

i'm interested in any and all comments on this issue. personally i think it's pretty dodgy. they're not signing anything and they're not asking us to sign anything. they essentially just say "what is yours is ours". and what happens if you upload photos that you took, but you don't necessarily have the right to "grant licence" to facebook??

[K&K_Dad]

I believe you 'signed' when you agreed to the terms of service. I heard about this a while back. I'm kinda glad I don't have a FB account. There's way to much of real life on that thing for me. If I had a FB account and were posting pictures they'd be heavily watermarked.

[Jon]

IANAL but that's not all that different from what you agree to when you post something here. If you don't let them post it, subject to your privacy settings, as part of your info stream then you might as well not post it, because nobody but you will be able to see it. It sounds broader than it actually is, since their privacy agreement (whatever it may be at any given time) still applies.

[apixelintime]

As they cannot change a photo that you post, brand it or water mark it and post away. Then let the b@stards use it, worst thing that "could" happen, you might get some traffic to your site/page.