Whenever I post an image to my gallery, I'm very careful to NOT check the "share this" box.  However, I just noticed that despite that, there is a "like" and "share" button for Facebook under every image in my gallery ... even going back to the first images I posted in 2007.  It seems to be a default setting, and I don't know how to get rid of it.

PLEASE tell me there's a way to get rid of that! 

If someone "shares" an image on Facebook, according to Facebook's policy, FACEBOOK owns that image, lock, stock, and barrel.  That means they can use or sell my photograph (or anyone else's image) without asking me, without paying royalties ... nothing. 

This is Facebook's verbage in their "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities:" 

• For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). ***This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it. *** (Emphasis mine.)

Having those buttons as a default is incompatible with Renderosity's copyright notification, also under every image in my gallery.  I don't post ANY of my work on Facebook, and don't think every random person who views an image on Renderosity has the right to make that decision for me, or for anyone else.

I've checked everywhere I can think of, but can't find a way to get rid of those buttons.  Can you help me?

 

Tara

 

 

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa