Facebook Question?

[152]

are you allowed to post pictures on a fan page? or is that against rules? Could your post be taken down by putting up fan pictures that you yourself might not have copy rights to or own? Can you get into trouble for using pictures you may have found in the internet for example? I have begun editing my page but it is not published yet. I did state in my page description that I do not own any copyrights to anything and it is a fanpage. If this is not allowed than I will simply delete the page.
I have decided to delete the page. It was never published, so I will not take the risk.

[bcnu]

Distribution of anything for which you do not own the copyright would require either a license or a willingness to take the risk of being sued and having to prove the defense of qualifying under one or more statutory exemptions.


Saying you do not own something you copied and distributed merely proves you intentionally infringed the copyright of those who do own it, which allows the copyright owners to sue for five times as much money. 17 USC 504.

You have to assume anything you find on the internet (or anywhere else) is copyrighted unless you can prove its copyright has expired or that it never had one (e.g., works of the US government).

[Vodkie]

Technically, yes, you can.

however, a lot of companies that do own the copyrights usually do not care about pictures unless you are selling them for profit.
A picture doesn't distract sales like, say a video on youtube would.
If the movie Frozen was on youTube, then that would distract sales because people could just watch it on youtube instead of buying it

A picture from Frozen on a facebook page however, doesn't have the same effect. it's just a picture. You're not really watching the movie for free with a simple picture, so Disney's likely not gonna care.

By the way, saying you don't own the copyrights makes no sense. if you don't own the copyrights, then it's not yours to copy onto your page or anywhere else.