Facebook photos

George_Michael

Do let your company know, that they should have approached you before accessing a social-networking-platform,
why?
Facebook is open to anyone and if the account holder makes that account viewable to all, whose fault is that?
that could have contained sensitive information.
Why put sensitive information on a website that is viewable to anyone with a computer?

I'm going to point out that they have to get my permission first (copywrite thing)

By opening a facebook account and uploading the photographs, you have already given them permission to use them.
The following is from their Terms and conditions which you agree to when signing up.

When you publish content or information using the Public setting, it means that you are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny

When you load photographs to facebuck, they become there domain and are reproduced across their system as 'royalty free'.

If you do not wish facebuck and others to use your image elsewhere, either mark your photo with a watermark or do not upload them. Most Internet sites that allow photo sharing do the same, including the weather photo on the BBC.

This also applies at 10 in the evening at weekends, should you have the misfortune to consume too much wobbleade, though in these circumstances, as with the facebuck fiend, you can, without hindrance defriend them.

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Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny wrote: »

When you load photographs to facebuck, they become there domain and are reproduced across their system as 'royalty free'.

If you do not wish facebuck and others to use your image elsewhere, either mark your photo with a watermark or do not upload them. Most Internet sites that allow photo sharing do the same, including the weather photo on the BBC.

This also applies at 10 in the evening at weekends, should you have the misfortune to consume too much wobbleade, though in these circumstances, as with the facebuck fiend, you can, without hindrance defriend them.

Although that's true it's only true for Facebook. They can use the OPs photos as they like but a private company can't. The OP still has intellectual copyright over their photos

kiwi99

thanks for the further replys on this... :beer:
just to confirm, none of the photos are sensitive and they are not available to the public via fb (only in albums visible to my friends) so surely they can't be just used by anyone as they wish without my permission?

shaun_from_Africa

so surely they can't be just used by anyone as they wish without my permission?

According the info posted earlier, by putting the info on Facebook you have effectively given your permission for anyone to access and use those photo's.

Apart from allowing others to use your photo's, you are also agreeing to allow facebook to use any of your photo's in any way that they wish totally free of charge.
You also allow them to transfer those photo's to a 3rd party, and that 3rd party can then do as they wish with them

Now Facebook has started trading on the stock market, they will be under pressure to make more profit than before, so who knows what they may start doing with all of the information that they hold.

kiwi99

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

According the info posted earlier, by putting the info on Facebook you have effectively given your permission for anyone to access and use those photo's.

is this correct, even if the albums the photos are in are NOT public

shaun_from_Africa

is this correct, even if the albums the photos are in are NOT public

If they are not public then they shouldn't be used but as it sounds like the photo's in question were public at the time they were used, the facebook terms allow them to be used by anyone.

When you publish content or information using the Public setting, it means that you are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).

There is also this bit, which is why I wouldn't give facebook the chance to use any of my photographs.

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 license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License).

http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms

patman99

Thats why Facebook use software that strips the EXIF data from photos as they are uploaded.

kiwi99

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

but as it sounds like the photo's in question were public at the time they were used, the facebook terms allow them to be used by anyone.

The photos are not in a public album. One of my fb friends that has access to my photos shared these with the company I work with without my knowledge and they've selected a whole range to choose from.... can they do this or not?

Thanks

burnoutbabe

why don't you just say t your employers that you don't want them used? see if they say fine. or if they protest?

i can;t see many companies publishing something that they KNOW the original person objected to, when they are an employee. but there is no issue if they just agree to it.