[LINK] Fwd:FaceBook alert

[Kim Holburn]

How can they change the terms?  Isn't it a contract?  I would have  
presumed that once you sign on and agree to the terms then your  
"account" is under those terms.  IANAL of course.  Also I don't  
understand which jurisdiction this would be under if it came to a  
court case anyway?  Yours or theirs?

What if you put an explicit copyright on each thing you write in  
facebook?

Which of course brings up the obvious question: how can they  
effectively copy anything you write and show it to other facebook  
users if they don't have permission to copy what you write in your  
account?

I did read their terms and conditions one day recently and found them  
pretty contradictory.

On 2009/Feb/17, at 12:02 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> From one of my writing groups:
>
>> Facebook changed its TOS on Feb 4th on the sly and it now
>> attempts to claim right not only to all your content but also to the
>> ability to resell it.  Now there's some question about whether
>> your privacy settings reduce the impact, but anyone with a Facebook
>> account should review the TOS.
>>
>> Here's a blog by Colleen Lindsay (an agent) about it:
>> http://theswivet.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-facebook-terms-of-service-grant.html
>
> How they can claim any right to someone's content is beyond me,
> especially after the fact. I wonder how they in any way align that
> position with copyright law?
>
> The reason the FB assertion of ownership is so onerous to writers and
> photographers is that the creator is no longer able to claim their
> own rights to sell or license their own work to someone else.
>
> Stil, time for an article that has wide distribution, me thinks. ZD
> and Crikey seem like likely wider audiences.
>
> Jan
>
>
>
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