Unethical Facebook Lays Claim to User Content
Stacey Whitman delves into the new, most-likely illegal, and most definitely unethical Facebook Terms of Service.
[Facebook] claim[s] they have all rights in perpetuity to any content here on the site (previously, it was simply a basic right to post your content here on the site and use in marketing, the latter of which was bad enough).
Note this clause–especially the words “fully paid” and “right to sublicense”:
You are solely responsible for the User Content that you Post on or through the Facebook Service. 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, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof. You represent and warrant that you have all rights and permissions to grant the foregoing licenses.
This is making me rethink the whole Facebook thing. Course any management team that includes Bush-apologizer/defender Ted Ullyot should be suspect.
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February 16th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Facebook responds
February 17th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Screw FB. I think I’m migrating all of my photo content to pbase.com.
THAT site explicitly states “All images are copyright of their owners.” Lord forbid I see my kid’s face marketing a haircare product!
February 19th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Facebook changed back their ToS… at least for now.
November 22nd, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Who knows where to download XRumer 5.0 Palladium?
Help, please. All recommend this program to effectively advertise on the Internet, this is the best program!