Closed Uploaded Photos

[LaughingDove]

I just have a question about what happens to uploaded photos, it may have already been asked and answered bjt if it has I couldn't find it. I was wondering what happens when a photo is uploaded in terms of who owns it. Does zoochat then own it, is it public for anyone to take or do is still own it? I mean this in terms of copyright like if a photo is uploaded to Facebook they own it and can then sell it to advertisers or do what they like with it. I know someone who had a photo they posted on facebook used in a commercial advert. Is something similar true with zoochat? I would like to know because I have recently uploaded my first photos and I don't want to put on my 'best stuff'.

 

[callorhinus]

I just have a question about what happens to uploaded photos, it may have already been asked and answered bjt if it has I couldn't find it. I was wondering what happens when a photo is uploaded in terms of who owns it. Does zoochat then own it, is it public for anyone to take or do is still own it? I mean this in terms of copyright like if a photo is uploaded to Facebook they own it and can then sell it to advertisers or do what they like with it. I know someone who had a photo they posted on facebook used in a commercial advert. Is something similar true with zoochat? I would like to know because I have recently uploaded my first photos and I don't want to put on my 'best stuff'.

I hope this is what you want to find:
"Terms of Use and Site Rules
Content and intellectual property
4. By posting any content to this site you irrevocably licence Hampel Group to reproduce, edit or distribute that content in any form in any location worldwide, and you waive any moral rights you have in that content. This licence is non-exclusive so you can continue to use your own material in any way including allowing others to use it.
5. Hampel Group will only agree to requests to remove user submitted content in its absolute discretion.
6. Hampel Group may alter or discontinue any feature of this site and its content in its absolute discretion.
7. Otherwise, except where such use constitutes fair dealing under intellectual property law, you must not use, copy, reproduce, publish, store, alter or transmit any part of the content. All rights not expressly granted to you under these terms and conditions or automatically conferred by law are reserved by Hampel Group."

 

[Chlidonias]

this thread will explain it better: http://www.zoochat.com/173/where-do-your-zoochat-photos-end-312005/

Specifically post # 14:

Actually - you do retain copyright over your photos. We make no claim on that.

However, by posting them, you grant us a non-revokable (but non-exclusive) right to publish them on our website in various forms.

The main concept behind the T&Cs is that by uploading your photos to our site for the purposes of sharing them with our community - you are allowing us to do exactly that - publish them and share them with our community.

The terms and conditions are not there to "steal" your content, they are there to permit us to publish what you submit in a variety of forms (the internet is not just web browsers on a PC any more), but only in association with the ZooChat site.

It does not give us the right to sell or otherwise profit from your photos, other than any incidental revenue we might earn from advertising shown on the site and such.

The photos are still yours - you are still free to do what you like with them elsewhere, we just want to publish what you upload to our site, on our site.

In other words: the photos remain entirely your property, but by uploading them to Zoochat you allow them to be used in other ways in connection to the Zoochat site. They cannot be taken and used for any other unrelated purpose.

 

[LaughingDove]

Thanks this explains it really well.