Notice to everyone: Posting a legal notice on your Facebook wall will NOT protect your copyright and privacy rights. FB doesnt own your (photos, etc.) but whatever you signed up for when you started your site on FB is the contract you have with FB. There are a lot of posts going around about this. This is probably the easiest commentary to understand: As techtalk noted of Facebook users current privacy rights: 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 (IP License). Facebook adds, [t]his IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it. *****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.****** Read more at snopes/computer/facebook/privacy.asp#QrIeZU2JTtpGoY8L.99
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 02:25:07 +0000
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