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

[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.