
Will Facebook claim 'worldwide ownership in perpetuity' of user created content in 2009?
This question is asking if Facebook will try again in 2009 to claim ownership over user created content in perpetuity for worldwide use through a unilateral change in their terms of service.
Here is the original article from Consumerist on the issue:
Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore.
Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later.* Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sublicense it if they want.
http://consumerist.com/5150175/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-we-can-do-anything-we-want-with-your-content-forever
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February 17, 2009
TERMS OF USE UPDATE:
Over the past few days, we have received a lot of feedback about the new terms we posted two weeks ago. Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.
By Daniel Terdiman | C-NET News
Facing a federal complaint from a leading privacy advocacy organization and a revolt of tens of thousands of its users, Facebook on Tuesday night backed down from what many have seen as an onerous privacy policy. The policy had seemed to grant Facebook perpetual rights to users' uploaded content, and the threatened complaint from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) had demanded, essentially, that the social-networking service return to its previous terms.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a blog post late Tuesday that the company had decided to do just that: Many of us at Facebook spent most of today discussing how best to move forward. One approach would have been to quickly amend the new terms with new language to clarify our positions further. Another approach was simply to revert to our old terms while we begin working on our next version. As we thought through this, we reached out to respected organizations to get their input.
Going forward, we've decided to take a new approach towards developing our terms. We concluded that returning to our previous terms was the right thing for now. As I said yesterday, we think that a lot of the language in our terms is overly formal and protective so we don't plan to leave it there for long.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10166456-2.html
What would happen if I posted some of my photography on facebook, as well as other sites to promote myself. Then does Facebook try to claim my content on other sites, if the same pictures are posted on multiple sites? This is an absurd policy and I am glad they are reconsidering.
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