Facebook is excellent to use to connect with current friends or make new ones, however what exactly are the stipulations involved when you create a facebook account? More importantly what are you actually agreeing too when you click the “accept” on the term and conditions page that you no one ever reads?
This topic was investigated during the week 5 tute and was I found very interesting especially as a photography student. According to facebook, “You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook”. However facebook sais you agree to the following: “For content covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), 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").
From what I can gather, this means any photos or videos you choose to post on facebook are not copyrighted and can be used facebook or anyone else who can get their hand on them.
The only way to avoid this contract is too end your account, however if images of yours are still on others accounts, they are still up for grabs. Privacy settings can be altered to help prevent this from occurring. The lesson learned here is if you have any images which you are planning to sell, don’t want others to see or use, do not post them on facebook.
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