I added this topic earlier http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/forum/8/74850 , because some people were a bit confused by what "Add this" actually does

Me no understand Mr Fawlty.

Me from Barcelona.

As I see it, it's just making it a little easier to do things you can already do. By posting something here, you've already made it available to the world.

Can't see myself using it, but apart from cluttering up the page a bit more, I guess it's "progess."

Please tell me that is a windup?

No it isn't.

This is an extract from the Terms Of Service, Section 19, Linking To Our Site; “nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page”.

I believe this share facility breaches that understanding.

I am fully aware that it has always been possible to copy and paste links of any members contributions but surely that would breach the TOS.

I am also aware that a number of members are members of other sites, such as flickr, and that they post links from this site to that content. This is allowed for in the TOS.

Paragraph two of this thread implies that the choice to share is that of the contributor where it says "for you to share your blogs, photos, articles and even forum posts". This statement is misleading, you and your should read anyone and anyone’s.

The addition of this link is a presumption that implies every member of this site invites anyone and everyone to create a link directly to their contributions on this site in breach of TOS.

The inclusion of this share button under my pictures allows anyone to infer that I am inviting them to share links directly to my contributions beyond this site that makes me feel uneasy and as I said at the start I think it breaches the Terms Of Service.

I am not a member of any other online sites, this is the only place I post pictures and I have no links anywhere that lead directly to any of my images. I do not wish to extend an invitation to anyone else to establish such links. The only link I have set up is the link to the MyFinePixUK Home Page in My Favourites. In the meantime I have deleted all of my images except the two that relate to the current competition and express a wish that no links other than those within this site be established.

I hope this makes clear the way I feel.

I would draw the attention of FUJIFILM to the fact that firewalls can block the display of the share button and hence an indeterminate number of members will not see it.

*tries to press non active button on comment above*

Well if that isn't an over reaction to a simple share button, I don't know what is.

Those terms are Fuji UK's terms. By placing the share button on sections of the site, they are granting you permission to share those pages via the sites listed by "Add This". Their terms regarding you "creating" a link yourself, still stands.

If you are that worried that someone may link to something you have said in public, I would switch your PC off, and throw it out of the window. Fact is google links to every single post and image you have uploaded. And the google cache also lets people see the things you have deleted too.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.myfinepix.co.uk%2Fgallery%2F570%2F&btnG=Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=

http://66.102.9.132/search?q=cache:BHhKFvaKhiEJ:www.myfinepix.co.uk/user/cambium%3Fpage%3D1+site:http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/user/cambium&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

Hate to point out the obvious, but by using add this, you are not creating a link yourself. It is "add this" that is creating the links via the fuji site. All you are doing by using add this, is granting the app/script permission to post a link on the site you select. So it is NOT breaching Fuji's terms at all.

The benefits are for those who use these networking sites, and also Fuji.

Fuji UK placed this feature on the site, and therefore they are making it available for people to use. They are therefore granting you the right to use the "add this" feature of the site. It has nothing to do with copyright, or in anyway similar to your example.

If we are going to get in to T&C's, maybe people should read this one:

With respect to all other Content you elect to post to other publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant MyFinePix the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sub-licensable right and licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.

Chris

I mean no offence by this comment, but I would just like to know why you are expounding the virtues of these links that have been added to this site. Surely all we need to know is that it they have been put in place and then leave it up to the members to decide if they want to use this facility or not. We certainly do not need someone more or less telling us that we need to use these links to improve our use of the site, because I for one am quite happy with the site as it was. Are you on the fuji payroll LOL

Ok Chris, I will concede that the 'Add This' button could be useful. As long as there is the option to add it to the garbage.

You mean millions of people around the world want to look at my photo's?

Like yeah.

It might be an improvement on the 27 people on Fuji who have currently looked at them.

Monty.

Chris - I can understand why some people would see the glare of publicity as attractive and would want all the networking they can get. But ........You Cannot Be Seeerious ..... if you think more people means more comments - it just means more photos to ignore and more people to ignore them! The masses of folk who are now members of this site rarely look at anything.

Many were the problems with MyFuji but every month without fail someone (and usually several) reached 200 comments (no idea how many views 'cos it didn't say) But now we are lucky to get 100 comments and around the same for views. And I don't know in comparison how many entries each month - I would guess there are about 3 times as many now as then.

Probably at a time when you were much too young to remember but there was some years back a saying - 'Small is Beautiful'!

Please don't get me wrong Chris. I have nothing against progress or Twitter or any other network and I certainly have no personal problem with you. My gripe is with Fuji. With all their promises they have done very little to improve the quality of THIS site for their members.

This is probably the most active photography sit around, hoping Twitter will add to the site, I feel is very short sighted.

Monty.

Angie, you know me, it's yesterdays news, over and done with. I'll send ya some flowwers ;-)

So, where are my flowers then?