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By Mathys van Abbe
May 11, 2011

There is a lot of controversy around the usage of shared social photos and videos and all the different platforms at the moment.

Our views have always been pretty clear on this and we’ve just added the paragraph below to our ToS to further clarify our policy:

Content Ownership
All rights of uploaded content by our users remain the property of our users and can in no means be sold or used by Mobypicture or affiliated third party partners without consent from the user.

This means Mobypicture will NEVER sell the rights to your shared photos and videos. Your content is yours!
(we’re actually the only service which doesn’t even show advertising next to your shared adventures, see the rest of our USP’s here – http://bit.ly/whymoby)

Creative Commons
For MobyNext (our soon to be released new Mobypicture platform) we’ve implemented the Creative Commons Licenses. This will help our users manage the rights even better.


Media Portability
We’ve also secretly ;) been developing a service called Mediaportability.com. This service allows you to move all your content from and to the most important social sites automatically. You can also use the service to move your Mobypicture postings to any other site or download these to your computer or iPad.

If you’re interested in mediaportability.com sign up for your beta invite here!

Update for developers and other interested (20th of April)

We’ve added an API call to get the ToS. This enables app developers to present their users to the Terms of Service of the sharing service they have selected (or was preselected). This gives the users more insights into what to expect. We advise all sharing services to add this call to make things more transparent!

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  1. S said
    on May 12, 2011

    it would be awesome if you add google picasa web to the mix.

    i have been long looking for something that can migrate my flickr pro account to google picasa web.

    cannot wait to get my beta invite!

  2. Mathys van Abbe said
    on May 12, 2011

    Picasa is already in the mix :) and most of the Twitter sharing services :)

  3. s said
    on September 21, 2011

    Any updates? It has been a real long time!

Continuing the Discussion

  1. As Twitpic signs a deal with a picture agency, Mobypicture hands control back linked to this post on May 11, 2011

    [...] just now tweaked their ToS conditions thus: “Content Ownership: All rights of uploaded content by our users [...]

  2. Twitpic verkoopt foto’s gebruikers aan nieuwsdienst WENN | Ger Timmer linked to this post on May 11, 2011

    [...] Mobypicture, zullen hier geen last van hebben. Bij hun voorwaarden is een dergelijke clausule niet [...]

  3. A Photo Editor - TwitPic Plans To Sell Your Images So It Can Profit linked to this post on May 11, 2011

    [...] just now tweaked their ToS conditions [...]

  4. Don’t Post Your Photos on TwitPic linked to this post on May 11, 2011

    [...] competitor Moby Picture has capitalized on the situation by updating their own Terms of Service to state that users own all copyrights, and Moby Picture will never sell their content without [...]

  5. Terms of Service and privacy | UltraSub's Blog linked to this post on May 12, 2011

    [...] Source Your content is yours [...]

  6. Thanks and ToS call - Mobypicture Developers linked to this post on May 20, 2011

    [...] Terms of Service of Twitpic and many of the other photo/video sharing services out there. I have blogged about this and many, many websites have stressed the not user-(read customer)-centric terms which [...]

  7. Twitter Said To Be Working On Their Own Photo Hosting Service | webdesigner-sa linked to this post on June 2, 2011

    [...] This comes just weeks after Twitpic — one of the largest Twitter photosharing services — signed a deal with WENN, seizing publishing rights from the original photographers and keeping them for themselves. With the large fallout from this news, we’ll be extremely curious to see if Twitter will also claim rights to all uploaded images, or if they’ll do something more similar to Mobypicture, who promise that your content will always be yours. [...]

  8. LinkedIn, Twitpic, Facebook en Google+ nemen een loopje met jouw privacy linked to this post on August 2, 2011

    [...] ook jouw recht op betaling mocht iemand je foto gebruiken. Gelukkig is er nog een andere optie: Mobypicture. Volgens hen blijven jouw foto’s ook daadwerkelijk jouw [...]

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