Facebook owns everything you upload, forever.

Snowcase

Snowcase

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This is part of their new terms of service.

"Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore.

Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later.* Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sublicense it if they want."

Read more here: [url=http://consumerist.com/5150175/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-we-can-do-anything-we-want-with-your-content-forever
 
Its been that way for a while now, and they can see key words you type in other applications like IM so they can specifically target you for advertisement.
 
OLD news, it's been that way since facebook started, they just put it in easier to read terms for a while (for the people who can't read). then there was an outrage, even though nothing had changed, then they changed the wording back, but it still means the exact same thing.

if you read the fucking agreement before you join, you can't complain, because it's stated in there in plain english.
 
groups on facebook never work anyways. so stop making the stupid "i hate the new facebook" groups

sorry, just a side rant
 
they are changing that now. there was a big notice from facebook about it if you ever bothered to read,
 
I realize this is old news but the way facebook has been going lately I took it upon myself to inform the public. They actually haven't rescinded it.
 
AND THEY NEVER WILL because every user agreed to it. albeit they agreed to it in junior high vocabulary rather than elementary vocabulary, but they still agreed to it. the only reason this was brought up in the news is because facebook had made the vocab easier to understand (like i said earlier, for those who can't read). now the vocab has been changed back to the exact same way it's been since facebook first started.

again, you can't complain just because you didn't read the agreement when you joined.
 
yeahh its fucked. i always have mad low-key bands as advertisements that no one knows about, but they know i know them. wtf
 
"Facebook does not assert any ownership over your User Content; rather,

as between us and you, subject to the rights granted to us in these

Terms, you retain full ownership of all of your User Content and any

intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated

with your User Content."
 
i dont see why facebook would have any business owning peoples stuff. i mean are the looking for pictures to put as defaults in frames on store shelves or are they trying to enter the sundance film festival with user submitted media? it doesnt make sense that they would own anything put up at all.
 
how about completely murdering the stock photography industry... not to mention the violation of privacy. You didn;t think before posting eh?
 
haha yeah my 1 million strong for halfpipe skiing in the 2010 olympics has barely reached over 30K or something aka major fail
 
well the reason advirtisments are related to what you look at, are because of things called cookies...

they store the sites you look at, and look for related material, to then display a advertisment you may be intrested in... they store just bout all your searches...

and this doesnt even compare to Blizzard ( WORLD OF WARCRAFT )

They recently had a contest, and terms of agreement, said that they can keep your creative work, forever, extending throughout the universe, not just on the planet earth...
 
I worry because as a photographer who likes to share his work with friends who don't realize that once they upload it, it belongs to facebook and not me. Sure they make for great default pictures but what if they decided they wanted to use it for an ad?
 
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