From Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/): For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos > and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, > subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a > non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide > license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with > Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content > or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they > have not deleted it. They don't claim copyright to your photos, but they do claim the right to use them for any purpose, including transfer to a third party for financial gain. Sean Z