I’ve always found it a little strange how facebook profile photos aren’t attributed to their authors, only the people pictured. It’s not a big thing, as clearly I’m not monetizing party photos, but it just strikes me as a little unethical. If it can say who took the photo when it’s in a group poolwhy not when it’s a profile photo?
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Nick added these pithy words on Apr 01 10 at 10:02 pmThe inventor of the polio vaccine, Jonas Salk, When he was asked in a televised interview who owned the patent to the vaccine,replied: “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
Am I saying is that your photographs are as important as the polio vaccine and people have a fundamental right to steal them? Yes, I am.
admin added these pithy words on Apr 01 10 at 10:55 pmAs I mentioned, I’m not terribly concerned about it in a personal sense, and I’m not an advocate of strict copyright law on a grander societal level either - I just thought it was really curious that, in an environment where major media outlets harp on endlessly about copyright and ownership, Facebook has institutionally ignored attribution on the personal level.
Can you imagine the outrage if they added a “Make my Featured Movie” button, so that all of your friends could watch (for free and in full) some blockbuster? AND did so without any branding or reference to the studio/product on the video page? It’d be a scandal. It would be so “inappropriate” that it would never happen. How come those same considerations aren’t made for ordinary people, who we’re told have the same legal protection over content that they’ve created?
Again I emphasise that I clearly wouldn’t exercise them, and prefer more liberal copyright policy-but I just couldn’t get past the institutional ignorance of Facebook when it came to their laypeople, especially when contrasted to their dedication to more well funded (read: Advertisers) and aggressive organisations.
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