Illustrators and Facebook

[ben_templesmith]

Good article about being wary of uploading your art to that place from Anna Goodson...

Facebook - Illustrators “ be -a -ware”

“When you post User Content to the Site, you authorize and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of the User Content on the Site. By posting User Content to

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[lx]

FYI, there was a brief Net Panic about this on MySpace too. Their terms of service are basically identical on that point. It's standard boilerplate for the sake of liability.

[ben_templesmith]

Yeah I don't post anything much on Myspace either. Unless I'd be prepared for it's abuse...

[lx]

The only kind of abuse I would ever be concerned about would be from users who are not bound by any kind of ToS. Honestly, I get my stuff ripped off by MySpace and Facebook users constantly (hotlinking my illustrations as backgrounds, fantasy avatars, etc). Whatever, it just helps my Google Pagerank and gets me more exposure. MySpace.com, distribute my stuff. Please.

Ultimately it's exceedingly unlikely that either Facebook or MySpace would attempt to Do Whatever It Is That People Are Afraid They'd Do with their stuff. Both sites point out that removing the content from the site immediately cancels the agreement, so if they were planning on extending their business model to pirating Everyone's Crappy Photography and Bedroom-Recording Bands, that is beyond impractical. "Hey Hank, hold up that MySpace Super Ripoff Sampler CD, Wildslutangel22 just deleted her damn band

[ben_templesmith]

Oh sure, there's the good side to it. But people should always be aware of the potential.Hence that article, which I think takes a rather even keeled response to the whole thing.

[solkana]

I've pretty much had to manually block all the apps I dont want to see anymore, and then block them as people send them.. It's pretty quiet on Facebook now that I've blocked them.

[ben_templesmith]

Huzzah! Will look into that!

[solkana]

Might take some time to do it but I thought it was well worth the effect in the end for some peace and quiet on from the flood of apps requests and what not. Just follow the link to the each app's Facebook page and there should be a link to block on the bottom right.

[thekamisama]

[ben_templesmith]

Nice :)