Newspaper Editor Says Posting a Photo to Facebook Makes it Public Domain

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Newspaper Editor Says Posting a Photo to Facebook Makes it Public Domain

Normally, we wouldn’t give much attention to the thoughts of an editor/publisher for a small community newspaper. But the response to photographer Kristen

via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2013/09/30/newspaper-editor-says-facebook-photo-post-equals-public-domain/

the whopper comes at the end of the editor’s phone message: “Also, the photograph is in the public domain in the sense that it’s on Facebook, so I don’t know. Maybe you ought to charge Facebook.”