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Facebook owns everything you upload, forever.

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Snowcase
Posts: 11456 - Karma: 634
This is part of their new terms of service.

"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."

Read more here: http://consumerist.com/5150175/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-we-can-do-anything-we-want-with-your-content-forever>


Here is a group protesting it. I don't understand the purpose of the group other than to show facebook it's user are pissed off but what has that done so far?

http://www.facebook.com/groups/edit.php?members&gid=62567771059#/group.php?gid=62567771059
Mar 17 2009 9:57PM
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Guavajelly
Posts: 197 - Karma: 34
Its been that way for a while now, and they can see key words you type in other applications like IM so they can specifically target you for advertisement.
Mar 17 2009 10:15PM
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P.opsicle
Posts: 478 - Karma: 29
Thats so Retarded,
Mar 17 2009 10:16PM
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k-rob
Posts: 14217 - Karma: 2,891
OLD news, it's been that way since facebook started, they just put it in easier to read terms for a while (for the people who can't read). then there was an outrage, even though nothing had changed, then they changed the wording back, but it still means the exact same thing.
if you read the fucking agreement before you join, you can't complain, because it's stated in there in plain english.
Mar 17 2009 10:21PM
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Peter.
Posts: 23796 - Karma: 13,014
groups on facebook never work anyways. so stop making the stupid "i hate the new facebook" groups


sorry, just a side rant
Mar 17 2009 10:21PM
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Tasche
Posts: 5422 - Karma: 99
I'm pretty sure they reverted back because of the backlash. Not sure though.
Mar 17 2009 10:21PM
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Malcolm
Posts: 15951 - Karma: 9,451
haha those groups are such fails
Mar 17 2009 10:25PM
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Nihiriju
Posts: 2061 - Karma: 27
they are changing that now. there was a big notice from facebook about it if you ever bothered to read,
Mar 17 2009 10:48PM
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caucasian_chad
Posts: 4078 - Karma: 3,625
yeah they did
Mar 17 2009 10:49PM
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Snowcase
Posts: 11456 - Karma: 634
I realize this is old news but the way facebook has been going lately I took it upon myself to inform the public. They actually haven't rescinded it.
Mar 17 2009 11:03PM
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.SimonB.
Posts: 1959 - Karma: 713
I always have Windells, COC and ski trip advertisements on mine, i guess they follow me to NS.
Mar 17 2009 11:09PM
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k-rob
Posts: 14217 - Karma: 2,891
AND THEY NEVER WILL because every user agreed to it. albeit they agreed to it in junior high vocabulary rather than elementary vocabulary, but they still agreed to it. the only reason this was brought up in the news is because facebook had made the vocab easier to understand (like i said earlier, for those who can't read). now the vocab has been changed back to the exact same way it's been since facebook first started.

again, you can't complain just because you didn't read the agreement when you joined.
Mar 17 2009 11:15PM
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GhostfaceKillah
Posts: 3398 - Karma: 10
facebook is evil... i'd leave if i could, but i can't.

It's definately a drain on society.
Mar 17 2009 11:32PM
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chapz
Posts: 10182 - Karma: 66
yeahh its fucked. i always have mad low-key bands as advertisements that no one knows about, but they know i know them. wtf
Mar 18 2009 12:10AM
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Mooose...
Posts: 1807 - Karma: 77
"Facebook does not assert any ownership over your User Content; rather, as between us and you, subject to the rights granted to us in these Terms, you retain full ownership of all of your User Content and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your User Content."
Mar 18 2009 1:11AM
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ORski21
Posts: 423 - Karma: 12
if you said skiing in your interests thats probably why, before i started going to NS i got those ads too
Mar 18 2009 1:21AM
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Tinga
Posts: 11349 - Karma: 2,333
i dont see why facebook would have any business owning peoples stuff. i mean are the looking for pictures to put as defaults in frames on store shelves or are they trying to enter the sundance film festival with user submitted media? it doesnt make sense that they would own anything put up at all.
Mar 18 2009 1:36AM
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Tinga
Posts: 11349 - Karma: 2,333
oh hey i got an idea lets read other peoples posts and steal their ideas.
Mar 18 2009 2:16AM
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Elife
Posts: 2829 - Karma: 44
how about completely murdering the stock photography industry... not to mention the violation of privacy. You didn;t think before posting eh?
Mar 18 2009 3:50AM
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Alex_G
Posts: 11902 - Karma: 1,019
haha yeah my 1 million strong for halfpipe skiing in the 2010 olympics has barely reached over 30K or something aka major fail
Mar 18 2009 4:55AM
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urbanjib
Posts: 1801 - Karma: 255
well the reason advirtisments are related to what you look at, are because of things called cookies...

they store the sites you look at, and look for related material, to then display a advertisment you may be intrested in... they store just bout all your searches...

and this doesnt even compare to Blizzard ( WORLD OF WARCRAFT )
They recently had a contest, and terms of agreement, said that they can keep your creative work, forever, extending throughout the universe, not just on the planet earth...
Mar 18 2009 8:39AM
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Snowcase
Posts: 11456 - Karma: 634
I worry because as a photographer who likes to share his work with friends who don't realize that once they upload it, it belongs to facebook and not me. Sure they make for great default pictures but what if they decided they wanted to use it for an ad?
Mar 18 2009 11:00AM
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