When you sign up to Facebook, you are allowing it to share your own information and also allowing others to share information about you. Your location, photos, videos, and anything you may be tagged in are all availabvle for thge world to see. The main question here is, does Facebook have the right to use your photograph for its own purpose? The simple answer is yes! As soon as you upload one or more photos, you surrender the usage rights to Facebook. "But they're my photographs," I hear you exclaim! Well tough, you agreed to allow Facebook to use them after you read the Facebook terms and conditions when you signed up.
Oh, you didn't read them? This is what Facebook says: "For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide licese to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (Facebook License) This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it."
In other words, until every copy of your photo is deleted from Facebook, they are free to use it as they want.
So is this reasonable? We think it is. Our perspective is that if your upload a photo to Facebook, then you are basically sharing it with the world by putting it online. If anyone is unhappy with this then the simple, and only answer, is don't upload your photos in the first place! The bottom line with any social network is make sure you know your rights and who controls the rights to your material online. Read the terms and conditions!
Read them in full by following the link here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms
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