Facebook photo stolen for ad

[buurin]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/06/12/facebook.photo.to.ad.kplr

Im curious how they blew up a facebook photo so large. Those things are like 800x600.

[Karl Johnston]

It's not loading for me, what is this all about?

[buurin]

http://snackfeed.com/videos/detail/f908a3de-a8ba-102c-8790-00304897c9c6/Facebook-photo-stolen-for-ad?_s=s

Summed up.. Facebook family photo (parents + 2 kids) was used for an ad in another country.

[saturnin]

yawn.....

[MDavey]

Damn thats crazy. Good or not I would sue just to get money, if its possible.

[Mike-DT6]

They didn't say what the outcome was. I wonder if anyone got their arse sued off. :lol:

[kidfiji]

Isn't Facebook's policy that if you upload anything to their website, it becomes their property and they can do whatever they want with ti?

[tommykjensen]

Isn't Facebook's policy that if you upload anything to their website, it becomes their property and they can do whatever they want with ti?

No its not.

[20droger]

Damn thats crazy. Good or not I would sue just to get money, if its possible.
Yeah. Good luck as an American suing a company in the Czech Republic.

If you think the American copyright laws are virtually incomprehensible, try the international ones. And who knows what kind of intellectual property laws they have in the Czech Republic.

[xoldboy]

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[CustomMinds]

they had something a few years back with another girl having her photo used in Australia by flickr i believe.

some younger 15 year old, and the advertisement was for a phone company. "call who you want when you want" or something.