New warning trap "Share button": Facebook user is asked to pay

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A Facebook user has to pay a fine of over €1,000 for sharing an image from a website outside of Facebook. Facebook users should therefore be careful about what they share in the future. How this came about:


What is important for Facebook users
Anyone who has ever manually inserted a link into Facebook knows that although an image is automatically generated from the respective article, some additional settings are possible, such as inserting your own image.

If you click the share button on external websites , this setting is bahamas phone data not possible. The link to the article and a preview of the article image are generated automatically and cannot be edited . Only a field for your own comment remains. The user has now been warned because no copyright information was provided on the shared image and she did not name the author .

Well-known media lawyer Christian Solmecke explains the case in detail in the following video:


What can you do?
Make sure that you are allowed to share the inserted image, or that the copyright is visible on the image if you want to use the share button on an external website.

Contact the respective platform or photographer , or find out what information needs to be provided for copyright purposes. Here are two examples (1st image: Flickr , 2nd image: Fotolia ) where you can find this information:

Flickr licenses
fotolia-faq

To avoid a warning altogether, the only thing you can do for now is not to click the share button on websites. We will stay on top of the issue and will inform you here as soon as there is any news.