Daily Mail have a right to your facebook/twitter pictures

[Kaloki]

According to their online picture editor.

Story here

According to them any image uploaded on the web is fair game for them and means they don't have to pay photographers/artists.

Which is utter bullshit.

It is because they are parasitic opportunists.

All media outlets use photographs from Twitter and Facebook - not just the Daily Mail.

And as my photos are available to my friends only, how pray tell will they get hold of them?

ownership of stuff posted on the web is pretty dodgy tbh

it can never really be deleted

it usually belongs to the site on which it was posted

there is an attitude of 'culture of free' wrt the Internet

Google copies everything

there is of course common courtesy which suggests that people should ask permission, but they often don't

"it usually belongs to the site on which it was posted"

No it doesn't. If you read most T&C's all you are doing is signing over to them the ability to display your images on a variety of screens.

And it's not common courtesy, it's a legal obligation.