Twitter Pictures being sold

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has anyone else heard rumors about twitter in talks with there layers about selling pictures to magazines???? i wonder will it stop tour player like Cink and Poults putting loads of pic's on twitter
 
Not 100% sure if this is legal or not. I know if you upload your photos to a website that could give them partial ownership of the pictures, but I would see this causing problems in the future.
 
unless you copyright or trademark/watermark an image.....once you load an image into the digital world it's free for the taking.
 
unless you copyright or trademark/watermark an image.....once you load an image into the digital world it's free for the taking.

Ok that's what I was thinking, but you know you will have some hard head that tries to fight it in court.
 
This is actually something I deal with at my day job. It never works.

Ok that's what I was thinking, but you know you will have some hard head that tries to fight it in court.
 
It's a company called Twitpic that's involved in this: http://news.google.com/news?...

U.S. law says that all works you create are automatically copyrighted by you: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq... and like most services, users grant Twitpic rights to the their copyrighted material when they upload (as defined in a site's terms of service, end user license, or equivalent.) As Hanks points out, the practical side of that theory is a bit different from an individual copyright holder's perspective since works are exposed to practically everyone on the planet, someone, somewhere will always decide to do something we'd prefer they'd not.

I think the concern is that a recent change in the site's legalese makes it seem they can now also sell users' images—I'm not a lawyer so I'll probably wait a week for the media frenzy to die down and report a final story or two with the real deal.
 
It's a company called Twitpic that's involved in this: http://news.google.com/news?...

U.S. law says that all works you create are automatically copyrighted by you: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq... and like most services, users grant Twitpic rights to the their copyrighted material when they upload (as defined in a site's terms of service, end user license, or equivalent.) As Hanks points out, the practical side of that theory is a bit different from an individual copyright holder's perspective since works are exposed to practically everyone on the planet, someone, somewhere will always decide to do something we'd prefer they'd not.

I think the concern is that a recent change in the site's legalese makes it seem they can now also sell users' images—I'm not a lawyer so I'll probably wait a week for the media frenzy to die down and report a final story or two with the real deal.

Sorry for the threadjack, but I saw a new fellow Coloradan. Welcome Yuri, to THP. Where abouts in Co. are you Located? There are a handful of us from Colorado here. /Threadjack
 
My tapatalk is going nuts. No idea what thread I'm posting in.

Edit: sorry just ignore this

Tappin' away from my DROIDX
 
I don't Twit so I guess I'm okay.

Kevin
 
Twitter is also selling access to companies to mine users tweets so this isn't exactly a stretch
 
It will be okay until a big company losses money from it then there will be a problem.
 
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