Monday, March 30, 2009
Uploading images
Flickr, another site I've been wanting to learn about but hadn't dived in yet. As we're thinking about using these social networking tools professionally legal questions about copyright come up. Certain sites like facebook or snapfish own your images when you upload them to the sites (much to the ire of users in facebooks case). Would a photographer we contracted to take photos at reception consider it copyright infringement if we posted the photos to a Marymount PV Facebook page? On a cursory glance at the flickr and picasa terms of use it seems like you do keep the rights to the images you upload. Of course focusing on topics like these seems to defeat the purpose of a sharing site. My millenial little sister has stoped adding photos to her facebook until they change their policy back which shows you that all of us are learning to maneuver social networking. More flickr play to come.
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These are really important questions to think about. While Flickr does give the owner of the photo an option to control their use, it is important to get permission from the photographer before placing his or her images online. Facebook has certainly encountered a lot of negative publicity regarding its ownership policies. I think its important that our students understand the Facebook policies so that they can protect their privacy and ownership of their original property.
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