Photo copyright issues Youtube video

[Deleted member 68495]

Here is the link to a newly-posted video from the Blackbeltbarrister regarding the law on copyright. It has a couple of surprising statements, one regarding the taking of a picture of you by someone else using your camera and the other regarding Facebook's 'stealing' of your images as by signing up you give Zuckerberg total access to your image in perpetuity (another reason I no longer use that platform for anything. I truly believe that Facebook is even more creepy than Google now.

Black Belt Barrister

 

[Deleted member 26215]

Here is the link to a newly-posted video from the Blackbeltbarrister regarding the law on copyright. It has a couple of surprising statements, one regarding the taking of a picture of you by someone else using your camera and the other regarding Facebook's 'stealing' of your images as by signing up you give Zuckerberg total access to your image in perpetuity (another reason I no longer use that platform for anything. I truly believe that Facebook is even more creepy than Google now.

Black Belt Barrister

Nothing surprising there.
The person that presses the shutter owns the copyright. Always has done.
As for Facebook, their T&C's are clearly displayed on their website.

 

[Deleted member 68495]

Surprised me, especially in the light of the controversy over that macaque that took a photograph of itself: Monkey selfie

As for Facebook T's and C's. No one takes any notice of these things until such time a posted photograph is so good it gets syndicated by Facebook with absolutely no compensation for the photographer; it will happen, sooner or later.

 

[Faldrax]

I've not watched the video, but if he's claiming Facebook has rights to your images in perpetuity, he's not reading the same terms and conditions that I am.

From Section 3.1

However, to provide our services, we need you to give us some legal permissions (known as a ‘licence') to use this content. This is solely for the purposes of providing and improving our Products and services as described in Section 1 above.
Specifically, when you share, post or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free and worldwide licence to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings). This means, for example, that if you share a photo on Facebook, you give us permission to store, copy and share it with others (again, consistent with your settings) such as service providers that support our service or other Facebook Products you use.This licence will end when your content is deleted from our systems.

I've highlighted a couple of key points - the 'license' is only so that Facebook can actually work - FB works on people sharing posts and images, to do that, they need to be able to copy it (when others share it).
It also specifically states that the licence ends when you delete the content.

 

[DemiLion]

Nothing surprising there.
The person that presses the shutter owns the copyright. Always has done.

Not true. The author of the work is the copyright owner. That is frequently a different person to the technician that triggers the mechanism.

 

[boyfalldown]

Surprised me, especially in the light of the controversy over that macaque that took a photograph of itself: Monkey selfie

PETA were desperate to win that one. Nothing to do with copyright or the macaque's interest. It did give them a way of setting a precedent that an animal could own something though and that would have opened heaps of doors legally for them

As for Facebook T's and C's. No one takes any notice of these things until such time a posted photograph is so good it gets syndicated by Facebook with absolutely no compensation for the photographer; it will happen, sooner or later.

they just look like standard terms for any sharing website. Why do you think different?

 

[KIPAX]

Facebook's 'stealing' of your images as by signing up you give Zuckerberg total access to your image in perpetuity (another reason I no longer use that platform for anything.

I put a watermark on when putting on facebook... better than just not using it at all.. isnt that what they called "cutting off your nose to spite your face"