What is the deal with photos on Facebook

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Does anyone know for fact the legalities involved with uploading photos to Facebook.

If I upload an album of photos onto Facebook...

- When deleted, is it actually deleted or stored indefinitely?
- Whose property is the image?
- Are they allowed to pass it on to others without consent?

Any ideas?

Cheers
 
Does that mean that if I were to take a photo and the press offered me money for the rights to print it/use it, that money would in fact be owed to FB because I transfered the rights of the photo simply by uploading it? - I don't know anything about law mind!
 
They do NOT own your stuff. You however, by posting, give them a license to use any content you post.

1. 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.

scott212 said:
Does that mean that if I were to take a photo and the press offered me money for the rights to print it/use it, that money would in fact be owed to FB because I transfered the rights of the photo simply by uploading it? - I don't know anything about law mind!
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You wouldn't need to pay anything to them but if they were to use your photos they wouldn't pay you anything
 
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