TwitPic Will Sell Your Photos, But No Cash For You

[YosemiteSam]

People who track you and steal your stuff should be killed. Them and all lawyers too.

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In one of the most disingenuous pieces of public-relations fluff we’re ever likely to see, the Twitter picture-posting service TwitPic has defended its plans to sell users’ photos.

Writing on TwitPic’s official blog, founder Noah Everett, who describes himself as "the nice guy that finished first", apologised for changes to the service’s terms & conditions that had been interpreted as claiming copyright of every uploaded image. He writes:

To clarify our ToS regarding ownership, you the user retain all copyrights to your photos and videos, it’s your content. Our terms state by uploading content to Twitpic you allow us to distribute that content on twitpic.com and our affiliated partners. This is standard among most user-generated content sites (including Twitter). If you delete a photo or video from Twitpic, that content is no longer viewable.

As we’ve grown, Twitpic has been a tool for the spread of breaking news and events. Since then we’ve seen this content being taken without permission and misused. We’ve partnered with organizations to help us combat this and to distribute newsworthy content in the appropriate manner. This has been done to protect your content from organizations who have in the past taken content without permission. As recently as last month, a Twitpic user uploaded newsworthy images of an incident on a plane, and many commercial entities took the image from Twitpic and used it without the user’s permission.

Noah may indeed be a nice guy, and I’d hate to suggest otherwise, but this statement is horribly misleading, and in such a way that the deceit appears to be deliberate.

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[kmp77]

So they can distro it or actually SELL it???

 

[Temo]

So they can distro it or actually SELL it???

Not clarified, which until they do means they can.

Also, this is not unique to twitpic.