This would be helped if I could get the damn Facebook integration up and running so I could actually see what crossposting there does in action, since, as we know, FB, will grab thumbnail images and such. Failing that though, here's what I see:
Assuming the crosspost looks identical to what posts to twitter, all that is reposted on FB is the subject line and a link. In the case of a comment, a few of the words and a link. Images themselves wouldn't get reposted, or if they did, they would as a link- hence the content never actually made it over to FB to get shared. Sure, FB could argue that the link is theirs, but beyond that, they really couldn't get very far at all. The same legal argument happened over on DeviantArt when they put in a FB plugin, and DA's own lawyers came out and said that there was no way FB could claim the images, since everything was still hosted at DA regardless. So yeah, I don't see an upcoming artwork violation issue. Sure, FB could try and throw a kerfuffle, but I doubt they'll expend the time and effort on actually pushing their case if someone challenges it.
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Date: 2010-09-02 02:38 am (UTC)Assuming the crosspost looks identical to what posts to twitter, all that is reposted on FB is the subject line and a link. In the case of a comment, a few of the words and a link. Images themselves wouldn't get reposted, or if they did, they would as a link- hence the content never actually made it over to FB to get shared. Sure, FB could argue that the link is theirs, but beyond that, they really couldn't get very far at all. The same legal argument happened over on DeviantArt when they put in a FB plugin, and DA's own lawyers came out and said that there was no way FB could claim the images, since everything was still hosted at DA regardless. So yeah, I don't see an upcoming artwork violation issue. Sure, FB could try and throw a kerfuffle, but I doubt they'll expend the time and effort on actually pushing their case if someone challenges it.