So Facebook has decided to own all of your uploaded photos in perpetuity

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03-31-2009, 12:44 PM
coqauvin

So Facebook has decided to own all of your uploaded photos in perpetuity

Details here

That a social networking site claims to fully own whatever you upload to their servers isn't really new, it's the change at the end of the user statement that is drawing fire, that:

Quote:

Originally Posted by ToS

The following sections will survive any termination of your use of the Facebook Service: Prohibited Conduct, User Content, Your Privacy Practices, Gift Credits, Ownership; Proprietary Rights, Licenses, Submissions, User Disputes; Complaints, Indemnity, General Disclaimers, Limitation on Liability, Termination and Changes to the Facebook Service, Arbitration, Governing Law; Venue and Jurisdiction and Other.

I wish I knew Russian, because I would love to check and see while FacebookAmerica owns you... well, fill in the blanks.
03-31-2009, 12:47 PM
Mr. E

I don't really care if facebook 'owns' my photos.
03-31-2009, 12:50 PM
coqauvin

this thread is a poor and elaborate excuse for me to make a reverse 'in soviet russia' joke
03-31-2009, 12:50 PM
simonj

This is why I do not upload photos to Facebook.
03-31-2009, 12:53 PM
Mr. E

Uh-oh guys, if we quit facebook they might shows pictures of us to people we don't know. This will ruin me forever, as I make sure to cover my face whenever I am in public.
03-31-2009, 12:53 PM
sycld

old news is old

also if you read the entire page you'd see that facebook isn't just trying to profit from your junk; it is trying to deal with the legal ambiguities that arise from a social networking site like this for which the current law is not really capable of dealing with.
03-31-2009, 02:59 PM
WellAdjusted

I don't really care if they own my photos..
It doesn't cause any inconvenience to me.
03-31-2009, 03:06 PM
coqauvin

Quote:

Originally Posted by sycld

old news is old

also if you read the entire page you'd see that facebook isn't just trying to profit from your junk; it is trying to deal with the legal ambiguities that arise from a social networking site like this for which the current law is not really capable of dealing with.

yes i know that already.

unfortunately for you:

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Originally Posted by coqauvin

this thread is a poor and elaborate excuse for me to make a reverse 'in soviet russia' joke
03-31-2009, 03:22 PM
Pepsi

All my faggy emo pictures were deleted six months ago.

Good for me.
03-31-2009, 05:43 PM
dudeman

They can have the hundreds of photos of me holding my index and middle finger sideways, but goddamn it they can't have my nudes.