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With the ease of mobile apps and prevalence of digital cameras, sharing photos on Facebook takes little effort. Once you put the images on the social media website, you grant Facebook permission to use your photos. Although you retain the original copyright, Facebook has access to your pictures for marketing, advertising and branding.
Copyright License
The moment you upload pictures to Facebook, you grant the company intellectual property rights. According to Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities document, any uploaded content falls under a "non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook." Although you retain the copyright and ownership of the photo, Facebook can still borrow it for company use without paying you.
Personal Photos
Before uploading pictures to Facebook, choose your images carefully. If you don't want photos of your children, family members or night out with friends accessible to anyone on the Internet, don't upload them. Photos can migrate beyond your friend list with one click of the "Share" button. For example, if you share photos on your wall and a friend then clicks "Share" on her wall, all of her friends can see the pictures -- even if her friends aren't on your friend list. In addition, you never know who will copy and paste a photo from Facebook to use on another website or sell to a stock photo agency on the Web.
Facebook Settings
If you don't want your photos available to the general public, change your privacy and application settings. This reduces the chance of copyright infringement against your ownership of the photos. Choose the "Friends Only" option to make your photos available to only your friends. If you select "Friends of Friends," your photos become available to more people. The "Public" setting allows any Internet user to access your image via search engine or by browsing public Facebook posts.
Removing Photos
If you've already posted pictures on Facebook that you don't want the company to have rights to use, you can remove the pictures. By deleting the images from your Facebook photo albums, the company will no longer have access to the pictures from your account, although images already in use by people on your friend list will live on. For example, if a friend made your picture his profile photo, a copy of the photo will remain in his profile photo album even after you delete your copy.
The moment you upload pictures to Facebook, you grant the company intellectual property rights. According to Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities document, any uploaded content falls under a "non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook." Although you retain the copyright and ownership of the photo, Facebook can still borrow it for company use without paying you.
Personal Photos
Before uploading pictures to Facebook, choose your images carefully. If you don't want photos of your children, family members or night out with friends accessible to anyone on the Internet, don't upload them. Photos can migrate beyond your friend list with one click of the "Share" button. For example, if you share photos on your wall and a friend then clicks "Share" on her wall, all of her friends can see the pictures -- even if her friends aren't on your friend list. In addition, you never know who will copy and paste a photo from Facebook to use on another website or sell to a stock photo agency on the Web.
Facebook Settings
If you don't want your photos available to the general public, change your privacy and application settings. This reduces the chance of copyright infringement against your ownership of the photos. Choose the "Friends Only" option to make your photos available to only your friends. If you select "Friends of Friends," your photos become available to more people. The "Public" setting allows any Internet user to access your image via search engine or by browsing public Facebook posts.
Removing Photos
If you've already posted pictures on Facebook that you don't want the company to have rights to use, you can remove the pictures. By deleting the images from your Facebook photo albums, the company will no longer have access to the pictures from your account, although images already in use by people on your friend list will live on. For example, if a friend made your picture his profile photo, a copy of the photo will remain in his profile photo album even after you delete your copy.
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