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Facebook Pictures

  • 31-03-2009 10:24am
    #1
    RockCastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 ✭


    Just curious!!! I put a picture on my Facebook account that I took, a fairly serious one too if I say so myself, and someone hijacked it and now it is being used on a commercial website for advertising??

    You can imagine my shock when I saw my own picture in front of me when by sheer fluke I logged onto the site! Can people do this or when you put a picture on Facebook do you give up all rights to it?? The file size must have been small dont know how they managed to use it.


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  • #2
    bord66633
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭bord66633


    Facebook is totally open - anything on there can be hijacked and there is no way to make it private at all - thus the reason MySpace is so much more popular.


  • #3
    padocon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭padocon


    Above: Normally who ever took the picture has coppyright of it so if you took it then they dont have the right. Thats unless there is something in the facebook rules ( Im not familiar).


    Also just wondering if I set up a facebook account
    Can I delete it? Thats delete the whole thing and not a trace of me being on it?
    Thanks


  • #4
    joanie20
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭joanie20


    Facebook recently changed their privacy rules and anyone was free to use anything you put on your profile....even after you close your account with them!!

    Fortunately there was a major revolt over this and they returned to their previous terms. However those weren't too great either and they have drawn up new terms of service and privacy based on user feedback over a 30 day period. Users are being invited to vote on which terms they would prefer to have enforced. The only catch is 30 percent of users MUST vote to make this binding, though facebook has over 200 million users so this is highly unlikely to happen. Voting closes on April 23rd at 12pm.

    Trying to vote on this myself but haven't been able to log in for days as I always get an error message saying I can't connect to facebook. Coincidence??


  • #5
    mick.fr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭mick.fr


    No one has the right to use your face's picture in an add without your consent, no matter what Facebook says in their rules.
    Just sue the company who is using it and get compensation.

    Any link by the way to the add?


  • #6
    padocon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭padocon


    Yes I would like to see the link too.

    It can be hard to prove you have taken a picture.
    But they would have to have a model release form signed by the person pictured (you're self) And I presume you did not sign one!

    Ps I'm no lawyer. And you would want to double check what I have said.


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  • #7
    Donny5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭Donny5


    mick.fr wrote: »
    No one has the right to use your face's picture in an add without your consent, no matter what Facebook says in their rules.
    Just sue the company who is using it and get compensation.

    Any link by the way to the add?

    That's not true at all. If Facebook's Terms & Conditions insist that content provided must be released under a given license, and you agree to that condition by posting images, then you've no such right.

    Similarly, if anyone takes a picture of you whilst you are visible from public land, then that image can be used by the photograph commercially without your consent.


  • #8
    padocon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭padocon


    Donny5 wrote: »
    That's not true at all. If Facebook's Terms & Conditions insist that content provided must be released under a given license, and you agree to that condition by posting images, then you've no such right.

    Similarly, if anyone takes a picture of you whilst you are visible from public land, then that image can be used by the photograph commercially without your consent.

    Are you sure? If its commercial use, I thought they needed a model release.


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