Facebook Can Use Anything You Put on FB
Do you ever read terms of services, privacy policies, user agreements, trademarks, privacy statements, legal notices, and other legal documents like that? Do you even read the whole contract when you sign for a job or do you read the long boring text that comes with the softwares you install?
Money is spent on lawyers to write those things and you should really read it all; every word and every punctuation. Yes, punctuation matters a whole lot. A lawsuit could be won just for a period or a comma.
Anyways, it’s just to say that I just read Facebook’s Terms of Use and I learnt that Facebook can do pretty much whatever they want with whatever you put there. So you see those countless photos you keep uploading? You should be open to the possibility that they may be used to promote the service you are using. If you’re not open to that, stop using the internet.
Here’s an excerpt:
When you post User Content to the Site, you authorize and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of the User Content on the Site. By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content.
Yahoo also has similar terms which applies to the whole network including Flickr. The same goes for your videos on YouTube. But don’t worry, it’s no reason to stop using any of the online services available.
The good part is that other users are not allowed to use other user’s content. I encourage you all to keep uploading stuff as I will.
