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Originally Posted by treo
anotnia,
This site is just like any other site out there, such as instagram and Flickr. When you post an image its becomes the property of that company. I know instagram and Flickr can actually sell your images without contacting you. You actually give away your rights to the images you post.
It come down to this... content! The larger your content database is the more your company is worth, for the most part that is. It all in the "Fine Print". So it doesn't surprise me that they pull this crap on people. Just dont post stuff tat you might think twice about or boycott the site.
When Instagram or was it Facebook tried to pull something like that, the users rebelled against them and it forced them to change there terms in there users agreement so that the "people" still owned there images.
By the way I would love to see your gallery, your avatar looks so nice.
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"being like any other site" is no excuse!
off course , neverthe less any site rules, a picture uploaded is NEVER owned by the site! I understand the site does not want to be paying for copyright material but the intellectual ownership Always stays with the artist or the photograph unless it is bought including the intellectual ownership. Which is not usual!
Therefore an option for an uploader/owner should be build in the site software. It is only reasonable: the account is the customers since he can delete the account and then uploaded material should be deleted from the site too!
I hope everybody sees the natural law of ownership in this. Often legal contracts are put in il-legal words but only if you take them to court a Judge can declare articles unlawful.