Comments on: Word On The Street http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/01/08/word-on-the-street-17/ "A fashion picture is a portrait, just as a portrait is a fashion picture." - Irving Penn Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:04:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: avs http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/01/08/word-on-the-street-17/#comment-1257 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:20:28 +0000 http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/01/08/word-on-the-street-17/#comment-1257 thank you for that scott....that's very enlightening and extremely scary. I've reposted your comment on my blog. thank you for that scott….that’s very enlightening and extremely scary. I’ve reposted your comment on my blog.

]]> by: scott http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/01/08/word-on-the-street-17/#comment-1244 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:06:01 +0000 http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/01/08/word-on-the-street-17/#comment-1244 Those social networking sites can be useful, but photographers need to be careful with the terms and conditions. Facebook, for instance, has a ballsy rights grab in their terms: "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." A little more about it in the Nation at: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080107/melber Those social networking sites can be useful, but photographers need to be careful with the terms and conditions. Facebook, for instance, has a ballsy rights grab in their terms: “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.”

A little more about it in the Nation at: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080107/melber

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