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Photography and the law. The intellectual property rights on photographs are protected in different jurisdictions by the laws governing copyright and moral rights. In some cases photography may be restricted by civil or criminal law. Publishing certain photographs can be restricted by privacy or other laws.
In general, if the image cannot be reused (including with redistribution and modification rights) by any entity, including commercial users, then the image must be considered non-free. Use of copyrighted material under an invalid claim of a non-free rationale constitutes copyright infringement and is illegal.
Monkey selfie copyright dispute. One of the monkey selfies at issue in the dispute. Between 2011 and 2018, a series of disputes took place about the copyright status of selfies taken by Celebes crested macaques using equipment belonging to the British wildlife photographer David J. Slater.
The Facebook privacy and copyright hoaxes are a collection of internet hoaxes claiming that posting a status on Facebook constitutes a legal notice protecting one's posts from copyright infringement [1] or providing privacy protection to one's profile information and posted content. The hoax takes the form of a Facebook status that urges others ...
As of February 2011, Facebook had become the largest online photo host, being cited by Facebook application and online photo aggregator Pixable as expecting to have 100 billion photos by summer 2011. [51] As of October 2011, over 350 million users accessed Facebook through their mobile phones, accounting for 33% of all Facebook traffic. [52]
In 2012, users sued Facebook for using their pictures and information on a Facebook advertisement. [309] Facebook gathers user information by keeping track of pages users have "Liked" and through the interactions users have with their connections. [310] They then create value from the gathered data by selling it. [310]
Algorithmic censorship. Online censorship by Facebook of algorithmic methods raises concerns including the surveillance of all instant communications and the use of machine learning systems with the potential for errors and biases. [10] Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO and majority shareholder, published a memo on censorship.
According to ยง 72 Abs. 3 UrhG, copyrights for most photographs and pictures expire fifty years after their first publication. If the picture is not published for a period of 50 years after production of the photograph, then the protection ends.