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The site you were advertising looks like a health scam site (not saying that it is; just that's what it looks like on first impression), did Facebook specifical
by ig1 16y ago
The site you were advertising looks like a health scam site (not saying that it is; just that's what it looks like on first impression), did Facebook specifically reject your ad on the basis of your image or due to the nature of your site? (i.e were other ads with the exact same details approved)
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoIt was specifically rejected because of the image. "...The image included in your ad is not suitable to appear on Facebook..."
- ig1 16y agoInteresting. A lot of advertisers have been complaining about ad cloning for a while, where companies clone the adverts from their competitors. I wonder if Facebook have introduced some sort of automated filter to reject clone images, etc. or if they're just manually rejecting the ones that have been vastly overused.
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoOn my blog fan page (visible from the site), I post funny pictures several times a day -- it's a habit I got into months ago. I've found lately that if I pick up a funny pic from the web, sometimes FB recognizes it and won't take it. But if I shave it some -- change the dimensions -- then it goes through okay. So yes, there is something going on there.
- ig1 16y agoI guess it's a copyright detection thing then.
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- izak30 16y agoThis image and content strikes me. I'm guessing that this woman, if she ever found out, could probably sue several of these advertisers for using her image without permission to sell a product. I think that many people forget that just because you found it, doesn't mean you can use it. Your argument is that if dozens of people are doing it, it's probably ok, that's totally wrong.
- ig1 16y agoI wonder where the image originated from, I would have guessed from a stock image library somewhere, but those kind of places tend to be very aggressive in tracking down unauthorized uses.
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- tghw 16y agoAbsolutely wrong. If you do not have a license to use the image or know for a fact that it is in the public domain, then it is a safe bet that you are in violation of the copyright. And just because you think you could reproduce the image does not give you the right to use it.
- tghw 16y agoJust because it is widely used does not mean it's not a copyright violation. Someone took the photo, and they own the copyright to it. Unless you have an explicit license from that copyright holder, then most likely you are violating the copyright. Additionally, you don't have a model release from the woman, and since you are using her image for commercial purposes, you could be liable and she would have a pretty good case, especially considering that it is a published fact that her image is more effective.
- scott_s 16y agoIf your ad was rejected because the ad violated copyright, then that breaks the premise of your post. That doesn't mean your conclusions are automatically wrong, but it does mean they can't follow from your premise.