Facebook and photos

the_syco

magicbastarder wrote: »

direct from the horse's mouth:

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"). 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.

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

Unless I'm getting it wrong, but does the bolded bit mean that should you delete it, it's once again yours, and FB must immediately stop using it? Not looking for legal advice, just wondering if this means what it says, or if it means something different in "legal speak", as it were?

Asking here, rather than draw the discussion where it was first posted, so it wouldn't draw the topic off-course. Also, to have a discussion on how this works, so you can point to this thread should it pop up again*.


*in saying that, the irony will not be lost on me if I get pointed to another thread should have already been discussed

Paulw

the_syco wrote: »

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

Unless I'm getting it wrong, but does the bolded bit mean that should you delete it, it's once again yours, and FB must immediately stop using it? Not looking for legal advice, just wondering if this means what it says, or if it means something different in "legal speak", as it were?

The images are always yours. That has never changed.

Yes, once you delete an image, and it's not shared with others (tags, etc), then it's removed from their system and they no longer have license to use it.