If you sell on eBay and take the time and effort to produce photographs of your auction items there is a new policy coming down the line that you should be aware of. The official eBay statement reads as follows:
Starting September 1, 2009, eBay will begin selecting sellers’ photos for inclusion in the eBay product catalog. If your photo is chosen, an attribution including your user ID and a link to your profile page will be included on the product details page under your picture each time it’s displayed. This attribution can give you significant additional exposure.
If you’d rather opt out of this program, please do so through My eBay as described here. To ensure your pictures are not considered for inclusion in the eBay product catalog starting September 1, you need to opt out by August 31, 2009 at 23:59:59 PT.
You can opt out any time after that as well, but any pictures we select starting September 1 during a time you are not opted out may continue to be used in the catalog at our discretion.
To some people the potential link traffic and exposure is a good thing and this will not be a problem. The key here is, if you do have an issue with it, you have to opt out or your photos are up for grabs for eBay to use. However, if your photos have a watermark it has been said that they will not be used in the eBay catalog.
Just in case you might have missed the fine print when signing up for eBay here is their policy on who owns the photos you post in an auction:
When you give us content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, trademark, publicity, and database rights (but no other rights) you have in the content, in any media known now or in the future.
It takes a lawyer to understand all of that. Just something to keep in mind when you are posting your photography on eBay or most any other website.
If you sell on eBay and take the time and effort to produce photographs of your auction items there is a new policy at coming down the line that you should be aware of. The official eBay statement reads as follows:
“Starting September 1, 2009, eBay will begin selecting sellers’ photos for inclusion in the eBay product catalog. If your photo is chosen, an attribution including your user ID and a link to your profile page will be included on the product details page under your picture each time it’s displayed. This attribution can give you significant additional exposure.
If you’d rather opt out of this program, please do so through My eBay as described here. To ensure your pictures are not considered for inclusion in the eBay product catalog starting September 1, you need to opt out by August 31, 2009 at 23:59:59 PT.
You can opt out any time after that as well, but any pictures we select starting September 1 during a time you are not opted out may continue to be used in the catalog at our discretion.”
To some people the potential link traffic and exposure is a good thing and this will not be a problem. The key here is if you do have an issue with it, you have to opt out or your photos are up for grabs for eBay to use. However, if your photos have a watermark (link to post on watermarks) it has been said that they will not be used in the eBay catalog.
Just in case you might have missed the fine print when signing up for eBay here is their policy on who owns the photos you post in an auction:
When you give us content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, trademark, publicity, and database rights (but no other rights) you have in the content, in any media known now or in the future.
I don’t think this kind of broad, all inclusive surrendering of rights is exclusive to eBay. Just something to keep in mind.
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