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Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever."
By Chris Walters, 6:14 PM on Sun Feb 15 2009, 188,411 views
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.
You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.
That language is the same as in the old TOS, but there was an important couple of lines at the end of that section that have been removed:
You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content.
Furthermore, the "Termination" section near the end of the TOs states:
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.
Make sure you never upload anything you don't feel comfortable giving away forever, because it's Facebook's now.

http://prince.org/msg/100/298042

I like your title better though.

So...basically...they own about a gazillion versions of 25 Random Things About Me. I'm sure they'll make a mint off that.

Genesia said:

People post photographs. Sometimes they may be selling those photographs online, but Facebook could take them for free and do anything they like with them. Not sure legally whether there would be some issues there, despite someone agreeing to the terms of service.

Fauxie said:

I've heard about people finding their pictures used in ads for online dating sites

bboy87 said:

That's messed up. I won't worry about that one happening to me though.

Still, if my photographs are copyrighted and strictly controlled in terms of the rights people have to use them (used only in accordance with precisely what they've paid for), does this then still overrule that?

Fauxie said:

as long as you have shown that you made a concerted effort to protect the copyright and/or trademark it should stand up in court.

ehuffnsd said:

Thanks. That's what I figured. Not that anyone is rushing to steal my work, but if some people are willing to pay for it then I figure some people might want to steal it.

Fauxie said:

That's a great move.

I only have a couple of pictures on Facebook. I don't trust any of these sites to deal with my music or promo shots

what if you have "copyright 200? by ur name" on there?