socialmedian: Facebook Now Owns Literally Everything You Put on Facebook. For Ever. Seriously.

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Feb 16, 2009

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Facebook have made alterations to their Terms of Use which now states that anything you put onto the site at any point in time - they can do with as they please.

Previously, when you closed your account, any rights to your own content would expire - now it still all belongs to them. It means the site can legally sell your content or use them in advertising with no zero recompense to you.

You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, eac

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Comments (11)

Wpbasti,

Feb 16, 2009

That's a good idea. Google just want to index data, while Facebook is owning it. Quite comfortable :)

Kahlilsan,

Feb 16, 2009

wow!

Callie O,

Feb 16, 2009

Removes all photos sharpish..... @calli

Oh drat - too late

Susanna777,

Feb 16, 2009

FB Terms of Use seem to refer to:
"any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof"
ie. anything in connection with the Facebook Service, whereas under the section "Ownership; Proprietary Rights" is stated:
"Except for User Content and Applications/Connect Sites, all materials, content and trademarks on the Facebook Service are the property of Facebook"
ie. your own content, applications etc.

So I think this should be ok?

Wellness360,

Feb 16, 2009

Everything has a price - The question is it worth it to participate in facebook?

Linkbacks,

Feb 16, 2009

If one starts you can bwet the rest will follow so we had better get used to this

Greendiamond,

Feb 17, 2009

@linkbacks facebook is a private networking site. Of course everything we users put there inside belongs to them, becomes their property. Therefore, we should think twice about what we put there inside.

Tcaesar1,

Feb 17, 2009

thanks for the info. Makes me think twice about using them for business or personal social networking.

Maylehmann,

Feb 20, 2009

This is crazy. Luckily I've not registered with them yet. Was thinking about joining, since most of my friends are already members. I don't feel to safe about this.