Comments on: Do Social Media Sites Have Too Much Rights Over Your Images? http://www.slrlounge.com/do-social-media-sites-have-too-much-rights-over-your-images Photography tips and photography tutorials and more Fri, 24 May 2013 12:20:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Zzz http://www.slrlounge.com/do-social-media-sites-have-too-much-rights-over-your-images#comment-43229 Zzz Wed, 02 May 2012 04:05:00 +0000 http://www.slrlounge.com/?p=127835#comment-43229 Pinterest doesn’t come out unscathed from that piece of the agreement. They potentially do because of the DMCA safe-harbor.  And even if that does not apply, the copyright holder can still sue pinterest but, potentially, Pinterest can then try and collect any losses from the user or drag the user into court.  But, if the user isn’t wealthy, they can’t simply collect.

Regarding Facebook, I think the thing they have going for them is that the license becomes revoked when you delete your material from their services (unless someone else shares it).  I think, for the most part, that is a pretty fair agreement.  Considering without an agreement whatsoever, a court would likely say there was an implied license to use the content from the fact that you uploaded/shared it.

]]> By: Tam Nguyen Photography http://www.slrlounge.com/do-social-media-sites-have-too-much-rights-over-your-images#comment-43213 Tam Nguyen Photography Tue, 01 May 2012 18:31:00 +0000 http://www.slrlounge.com/?p=127835#comment-43213 I’ve cut my posting and sharing my images down to absolute minimal; whenever I need to get some exposure or marketing. If people want to see good quality images, I have links to my website that they can come and check out. That way, I control what goes in and what comes out.

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