Here’s the statement straight from Facebook’s website:
“You grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable,royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post onor in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your contenthas been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.”
Translation: If you post your photos on Facebook, you give Facebook the rights to those photos. They can use them however they want, whenever they want, anywhere in the world they want… even if you delete your account. They can even sell them without your knowledge and there’s nothing you can do about it. Photos posted on Facebook are now Facebook property. Period.
So what does this mean for you as a photographer? Well, for starters, it means that if you’re serious about making money from your photography, you should reconsider posting your best photos on Facebook. Professional photographers Rich Wagner and Efraín Padró have said that Facebook photos (if posted at all) should simply be casual snapshots and candids that you AREN’T looking to sell. My general rule of thumb would be: Don’t post anything you wouldn’t want to give away for free, because that’s in essence exactly what you’re doing.
(Seriously though if you do want to buy the picture above either with or without the graffitti, contact me in the usual way! E mail me
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