Facebook Can Sell the Pictures You Post On Their Site

Posted by Thor on January 17th, 2008 11 Comments

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Has anyone read Facebook’s Privacy Policy or their Terms? It’s really scary actually. So long as you have pictures on the site, the terms state:

By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.

So, you post a picture of yourself on Facebook.  Two years down the road you get famous for that star role in the movie and Facebook sells your waste-face party pictures to People Mag?  Are you kidding me?

That’s bs. I want to take my pictures off Facebook now. That’s messed up if you ask me.  Be careful people.  It’s not just a privacy issue.  You deserve the money for those pictures. It was you after all.

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11 Responses to “Facebook Can Sell the Pictures You Post On Their Site”

  1. 17 Jan 2008 at 11:19 am1Floozy said:

    Wow… I’m taking the footage of my latest pap smear off their right now. How intrusive can Facebook get?

  2. 17 Jan 2008 at 11:19 am2Floozy said:

    That would be there Byo.. hahaha

  3. 17 Jan 2008 at 11:21 am3belmont yo said:

    Huh?

  4. 17 Jan 2008 at 11:22 am4Floozy said:

    Spelling correction before you called me

  5. 17 Jan 2008 at 11:22 am5caroline said:

    but I love that pic flooze!

  6. 17 Jan 2008 at 11:33 am6happyhooker said:

    i’m going to be a star!

  7. 17 Jan 2008 at 2:01 pm7Ralph said:

    The price you pay to join a ‘free’ site.

  8. 17 Jan 2008 at 6:20 pm8danpri said:

    Its not like they do not let you know and they have to pay the bills somehow.

  9. 17 Jan 2008 at 11:15 pm9Magic Hat said:

    I just took down all my pictures, thanks for the heads up.

  10. 18 Jan 2008 at 1:08 pm10TW Garrett said:

    Great blog - thanks!

    Here is another great article about Facebook -

    http://www.thetechbrief.com/2008/01/16/top-10-lives-businesses-and-reputations-ruined-due-to-facebook/

  11. 18 Jan 2008 at 1:13 pm11Thor said:

    danpri & ralph - they already sell targeted advertising based on your profile information.

    these terms are absurd if you ask me. it’s not explicit when you upload pictures and that’s the messed up part. the whole “free” site thing is meaningless. you guys visit the site for free, but we would never sell your personal information or pictures to advertisers.

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