To everyone thats been posting that message about Facebooks privacy policy lately. Messages about protecting your copyright or privacy rights on Facebook by posting a particular legal notice to your Facebook wall are variants of an item circulated several years ago positing that posting a similar notice on a web site would protect that sites operators from prosecution for piracy. In both cases the claims were erroneous, an expression of the mistaken belief the use of some simple legal talisman will immunize one from some undesirable legal consequence. The law just doesnt work that way. First off, the problem this ineffective solution supposedly addresses is a non-existent one: Facebook isnt claiming copyright to the personal information, photographs, and other material that their users are posting to the social network. Anyone who uses Facebook owns and controls the content and information they post, as stated in our terms. You control how that content and information is shared. See facebook/policies. When you post things like photos to Facebook, we do not own them. Under their terms you grant Facebook permission to use, distribute, and share the things you post, subject to the terms and applicable privacy settings. When you agree to Facebooks terms of use you provide Facebook a non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any content you post. You do not need to make any declarations about copyright issues since the law already protects you. Before you can use Facebook, you must indicate your acceptance of that social networks legal terms, which includes its privacy policy and its terms and policies. You cannot neither alter your acceptance of that agreement nor restrict the rights of entities who are not parties to that agreement simply by posting a notice to your Facebook account, citing the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), or referencing the Berne Convention. The fact is that Facebook members own the intellectual property (IP) that is uploaded to the social network, but depending on their privacy and applications settings, users grant the social network a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook. While the social network does not technically own its members content, it has the right to use anything that is not protected with Facebooks privacy and applications settings. For instance, photos, videos and status updates set to public are fair game.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 03:08:45 +0000
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