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You miss the point completely.

Let's say you take a photo and paste it on the internet. It is then used (without your permission) in a global ad campaign.

Your ability to sue is zero. All the user has to do is show that you don't have standing.

Your employer doesn't care. They'll happily ignore the violation. They're not interested in defending some random photo.

Incidentally if you posted the photo to somewhere like Facebook, the user can buy the license to use it from Facebook instead of from you, but that's another discussion for another day.



> if you posted the photo to somewhere like Facebook, the user can buy the license to use it from Facebook instead of from you

This is not true.

Here is Meta's TOS: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/preview/?section_id=sec...

> you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content

Notably absent from this list is the right to sublicense the content


Did you miss this part?

> sub-licensable


Ha, thanks that's an excellent, and horrifying, point I had not considered, Thanks! All the same I stand by my point.




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