New ‘Photos at My Door’ App Sells Your Facebook Photos Without Your Knowledge
There’s a new Facebook app on the market called ‘Photos At My Door’. This new app enables your Facebook friends to browse through your galleries and buy different photo products (prints, mugs, keychains, phone covers) using your own images. The question is, do I want my friends to have the ability to sift through my public and ‘friends only’ albums and make mugs and keychains out of my images or worse yet, buy prints? The answer, on a professional photographer standpoint… absolutely not!
This is starting to sound a lot like the mess that Instagram was in a few months back, but blatantly more insulting to the hard working professional photographers that reside on Facebook. The argument could be made that only public albums and ‘friends only’ albums are used in the service, but a photographer’s copyright is still that… their copyright. When I looked up their terms of service the same technical jargon was on there as Instagram’s.
We all signed a TOS agreement with Facebook when first joining, and Facebook has come out several times declaring that we the individuals own the photos that we upload onto the service.
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