Re: [Advocacy Advisors] freedom of panorama

The argument that personal Facebook uploads are 'non-commercial' does not hold water. Any private individual who uploads personal photographs to a social media website will be affected, as most sites require users to warrant that their uploads do not not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party. Anybody using social media to share even private photographs that include a modern building or streetscape within the view will be in breach of the warranty and will be at significant legal risk. Also, many websites state in their small print that uploads are automatically licensed to the site owner under a worldwide non-exclusive licence for any purpose (even commercial). Uploaders will not be in a position to grant such a licence, as they will no longer be the sole copyright owner of their own photographs. The relevant clauses in the Facebook legal terms can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms * 2.1 For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy <https://www.facebook.com/privacy/> and application settings <https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=applications>: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). * 5.1 You will not post content or take any action on Facebook that infringes or violates someone else's rights or otherwise violates the law. Michael