There has been lots of rumors about this in the past but now I understand it is a decision they have made. They can sell a photo posted (hypothetical example) let's say to Time Magazine) the photo is used on the front cover but the photographer never gets a penny or even recognized as the photographer.
Ok, I will pull photos that I care about and the ones I do care about I'll put a huge watermark.
Here is my real question - if I share 365 link on Facebook which I know is suppose to be protected - can Facebook still use it?
Good point ...
I doubt it, since to copy the pic they would have to use this site, not theirs - but a knowledgable answer from someone would be wonderful.
I read the TOS of Facebook the other day after the whole Instagram fiasco; and you can restrict Facebook's ability to license your photos if you change the privacy settings to anything other than public. For example, if your settings on your posts and photos are set at friends only, then they can't sell them. Hopefully that is clear.
not only can you easily protect your photos by not setting them as public, even if you set them as public, no one is going to buy one of your photos for publication because they'll be getting an extremely compressed image file that only looks good on the web... in print, the photos suck. so the compression process itself indirectly protects your images. However, early on in facebook, when I did use public settings, I noticed one of my photos being used in an ad on facebook for a greeting card company. I contacted the company and asked them to either pay me for the usage or take it down and they didn't even try to fight it, they sent me a check instead.... and then took the ad down. Facebook, however, can use your photos if your setting is public, to direct traffic to partner sites and you will not get credited or reimbursed.
"Here is my real question - if I share 365 link on Facebook which I know is suppose to be protected - can Facebook still use it?"
No, the link does not constitute uploading the photo to Facebook. They can, however, use the post that contains your link as they see fit, although that would serve no purpose.
I have a personal facebook account along with a 'page' I have created to share my photos - this page doesn't allow for the posts made to be changed to 'non-public' - the only option is for it to remain as a 'public' post.
Although my photos aren't fantastic by any means - I am inclined to remove the whole 'page' - surely facebook doesn't want this to happen ?
@pocketmouse that is an extremely good point Teresa and exactly why i havent progressed with a photography Facebook Page as it is then in the public domian, so i think you would have no choice but to watermark or make the pics low res which i think takes away from the images..
@markyl Yeah, I never upload any high-res stuff so they won't be able to do much with it! But it's still scary to think that Facebook could potentially take your images and use them in online advertising or something... who knows!...
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I doubt it, since to copy the pic they would have to use this site, not theirs - but a knowledgable answer from someone would be wonderful.
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No, the link does not constitute uploading the photo to Facebook. They can, however, use the post that contains your link as they see fit, although that would serve no purpose.
Although my photos aren't fantastic by any means - I am inclined to remove the whole 'page' - surely facebook doesn't want this to happen ?