It's all about the timing

[brynndragon]

NPR is doing a piece on "the benefits of joining Facebook" on Talk of the Nation (starts now, not sure when in the next hour they'll be discussing that subject). Any bets for how long it'll take for someone to point out their recent "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever." changes to the ToS?

ETA: It was the first question the host asked, before they went to the phones. He did the standard "oh, it's just so Facebook doesn't have to keep track of things you put on friends' walls to make it go away when you delete your account". Someone should tell them that using legalese to make up for lazy coding is not cool.

Comments

[lawbard.livejournal.com]

Well, thats a BS excuse in my opinion.

That legalese, to me, means that anything on Facebook becomes their legal property, meaning they can do whatever they want with it, including sell it, and you have little to no recourse with how they handle it. They own it...you do not.

And thats so excessively horrifying that I will never have anything to do with Facebook, ever.

[brewergnome.livejournal.com]

I'm going to *have* to remove stuff, and may just close my account, since I don't have the rights to give people the rights to some of my photos on there.

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's going to be a very lovely lawsuit when a photographer sues Facebook because they play the "sell user's stuff" game and pick a picture that the *user* didn't have the rights to. Frickin' asshats.

[brewergnome.livejournal.com]

My problem is that *I* have rights to them, but they were TFP so I don't have rights to give/sell them.

I actually need to email one of the photographers to see if I can retroactively buy one of the photos.

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

Yes, I should have specified the rights being "sell/give away" rather than "use".

[brewergnome.livejournal.com]

::grumbles::

It's annoying.