<p>Hi Lifehacker, I was wondering whether I have full ownership and property rights for photos I upload to flickr? The offer of 1TB of space makes online photo backups enticing, but am I giving up too much? Thanks, Snap Happy</p><p>Dear SH,</p><p>The default copyright setting for uploading images to Flickr is 'All Rights Reserved', which means you are the sole owner of your images (assuming that you actually produced them yourself, that is). Indeed, one of Flickr's chief selling points is that users maintain all ownership rights to the photos that they upload.</p><p>Here's what parent company Yahoo! has to say on the subject of image ownership on its Terms Of Service page:</p><p><a href="http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/09/ask-lh-can-i-keep-rights-to-photos-i-upload-to-flickr/">Keep reading...</a></p>