Facebook Owns All Your Stuff. FOREVER.
That's right. If you ever want to claim any sort of ownership on any of your content, do not upload it to Facebook.
A recent change in Facebook's TOS has amended the language to indicate that even if you close and delete your account, Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with the content you uploaded in perpetuity.
Under the "Licenses" section:
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.
And in the "Termination" section, they make sure that they retain the rights to anything you uploaded even if you delete your account:
The following sections will survive any termination of your use of the Facebook Service: Prohibited Conduct, User Content, Your Privacy Practices, Gift Credits, Ownership; Proprietary Rights, Licenses, Submissions, User Disputes; Complaints, Indemnity, General Disclaimers, Limitation on Liability, Termination and Changes to the Facebook Service, Arbitration, Governing Law; Venue and Jurisdiction and Other.
I've already disconnected both my Flickr account and the Homotron feeds from my Facebook account in order to protect the rights to my work. I suggest that if you want to keep any sort of rights to your content, do NOT post it to Facebook!
What do you think of this scummy change?
Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever." [Consumerist]
Den Den Boy
Posted to Hot Stuff, On Your Desk on 16 February 2009
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I disconnected from Facebook because, well, there were faces I did not want to see, popping up where I least expected. That and I miss the art of the e-mail, and the long lost art of the written letter...and well, Facebook was monopolizing all communication. And call me Pope BenedictXVI but I didn't feel like Facebook created any sense of people actually caring about each other, rather it devalued my sense of human relations. I've never been much of a small talker.
I deleted my account but I didn't take all of the necessary steps. I should have deleted one by one, all of my friends, photos, groups and apps...all the traces so to speak. Then at the end of it all I should have changed the name of my profile to something profane, put up a photo of porn and have the account deleted based on violation of terms of service or whatever. But really, who has the time of day?