[potatolicious]

> "So a company needs a certain level of freedom so they can disclaim copyright infringement in circumstances such as showing adverts alongside your work. But that level of freedom means they could by the letter of the agreed terms use your images for advertising, but the company have told you that's not the purpose of the clause and that they don't intend to do that."

The beauty of legalese is that we can have our cake and eat it too.

In fact this is precisely what many image hosts do - they enumerate the allowable uses for your copyrighted material, instead of imposing a blanket, kitchen-sink allowance.

If you want to profit off of advertising while displaying my photo? Put it in the document, that's fine. Just don't go around asking me to essentially sign all of my copyright over to you.