[Leica] simple intellectual property question

[jmilton2 at maine.rr.com (Jack Milton)]

Hi Ken,
 I'm not a lawyer, but the photo editor at a daily newspaper. I have spoken 
to a lawyer about photos on Facebook. Facebook, and any other photo sharing 
Web site, and your ISP, for that matter, is just trying to protect itself by 
saying that if you post a photo, or other content on FB, FB has the *right* 
to display that photo. It seems a simple enough concept?why would FB need 
legal permission to display content that you've upload to FB for the very 
purpose of displaying it, but that's what's happened in our litigious 
society.

 Of far more concern to any content producer, is what can happen to your 
content (photo) if you post it anywhere on the Internet, or even send it in 
an email to someone you know. It's just TOO easy to "share" (steal) that 
content and use it for some other purpose. That shouldn't stop you from 
posting your photos on FB, or the LUG  gallery, or anywhere else. Just be 
aware that you're giving up a lot of control over what happens to that 
content once you press that Send or OK button.

 If you're a photographer who is trying to make a living from your 
photographs, you probably shouldn't post anything that might help make that 
living for you. Share them with your clients, your agency, your employer. 
Use them to advertise you skills. The rest can be posted anywhere you like 
to entertain your friends and the world, just expect them to show up in 
unexpected places.

Jack Milton

On Feb 1, 2013, at 5:39 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:

> I think this is clear, but I would appreciate any corrections.  The 
> Facebook
> terms of use state that for any IP content that I post, I retain ownership
> but grant a royalty-free sublicense.  From the definition of "content", it
> appears that if I post a link to one of my photos on Facebook, I have
> granted the sublicense for that image, the same as if I had uploaded the
> image to Facebook.  Correct?  Thanks for any help.