James, you might want to read this carefully. It is copied directly from the "terms of use" of the Face Book site.
When you post User Content to the Site, you authorize and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of the User Content on the Site. By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time.
In effect, by posting your images on Face Book you are giving them a license to use your images as they see fit without any payment of recognition. I removed all images from my Face Book account except one of me that is worthless anyway.
BTW you have great images and they are well worth protecting.
Posted by Luke Ormand on April 20, 2009 at 11:32 PM
While Ed is correct -- I think the threat is extremely small. When you post pictures on facebook, they are severely compressed into low quality jpeg. Anyone who wants to steal them, or if facebook wants to use them, as far as I'm concerned they are more than welcome to use poor quality lo-res pictures. Someone is much better off coming here and either copying the image directly or Ctrl+Prt Scr an image and dropping it into photoshop. Just my 2 cents
I thought Facebook retracted that statement after an uprising of participants? Or was that a different issue? I'm not a member of Facebook and only happened to read about it in the newspaper. I don't understand the need to be a member of Facebook, MyBook, or any other social webpage from a business standpoint. From what I understand most commercial backers are not seeing any revenue generation and that it is purely social contact, with a lot of that pretty inane.
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Oh and while Grant and Erik duke it out, why not swing by my Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nature-Photography-Naturally/179620875391?ref=mf and sign up.
In effect, by posting your images on Face Book you are giving them a license to use your images as they see fit without any payment of recognition. I removed all images from my Face Book account except one of me that is worthless anyway.
BTW you have great images and they are well worth protecting.