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Facebook, Birding Australia Wide and Birding Aus

To: "Dave Torr" <>
Subject: Facebook, Birding Australia Wide and Birding Aus
From: "Alistair McKeough" <>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:50:32 +1000
Dave

I am not sure about Flickr. I do know that posting to Facebook is
effectively giving your work away.

To be honest, that's probably a complete non-issue for people wanting to
discuss ID snapshots, but I don't think you'll find any of us who take
photography a bit more seriously posting there.

Alistair

2008/9/4 Dave Torr <>

> I had not realised that (not that I intend to use the system). Which
> presumably means that those who have proposed the use of Facebook as a way
> to allow discussion of photos etc which cannot be done on BirdingAus will
> now effectively lose any copyright over those photos. Does this apply to
> sites such as Flickr which I believe (I am not a photographer) are used for
> photo sharing and MAY be more appropriate than Facebook?
>
> 2008/9/4 Carl Clifford <>
>
> And the sting is in the tail. "to prepare derivative works of, or
>> incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize
>> sublicenses of the
>> foregoing." means that they can sell any of your details and anything you
>> post, to any one, anywhere, without informing you,, and you can do sweet
>> nothing about it. Oh yes, you could take it to court, in the USA. But how
>> much can you afford to spend? You bet Fakebook has deeper pockets.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Carl Clifford
>>
>>
>>
>> On 04/09/2008, at 4:26 PM, Alistair McKeough wrote:
>>
>> It's your life. Just make sure you read and understand the terms of
>> service.
>> Anything you post (including all those photos of their kids people like to
>> put up) belong to the Face Borg.
>>
>> And if you're not sharing real information, what's the point?
>>
>> Have fun.
>>
>> "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."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2008/9/3 Katherine Bronte <>
>>
>>  Just a quick congratulations to Kurtis and Russell for the birding groups
>>> on
>>> Facebook. It is lovely to see that both groups are being joined. And for
>>> those who are dubious about Facebook.....you are the master of your own
>>> profile!!
>>>
>>> A positive thought on a wee bit  gloomy of a day in Newcastle!
>>>
>>> Katherine
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