Facebook’s New Terms of Service
UPDATE – February 17, 2009: Mark Zuckerberg Speaks out on the response to the new Terms of Service And I quote (excerpt):
One of the questions about our new terms of use is whether Facebook can use this information forever. When a person shares something like a message with a friend, two copies of that information are created—one in the person’s sent messages box and the other in their friend’s inbox. Even if the person deactivates their account, their friend still has a copy of that message. We think this is the right way for Facebook to work, and it is consistent with how other services like email work. One of the reasons we updated our terms was to make this more clear.
Well that was quite a round about way of answering. Are you (the reader) satisfied with this reply?
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ORIGINAL POST – February 16, 2009
I just read that Facebook has a new terms of service or shall we refer to the new TOS as “Terms of Screwing” you and your content, for lack of a better phrase. No matter what you do now, any content that you have uploaded to Facebook belongs to them…FOR-E-VER!! Kind of gives of the scene in the movie “The Sandlot” where the kid ominously repeats “forever.”
I’m not going to re-hash what can be read in the original online source (theconsumerist.com), but what has me dazed and confused was pointed out by one commenter that goes by the name of Silver Bolt.
He stated:
[Facebook TOS]: ‘You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual , non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license.’
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[Facebook TOS]: ‘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.’
–Those two sections were contradictory in the first place. How can a irrevocable forever license expire?
My thinking exactly! Can someone explain this?
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