Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Facebook's new terms of service

According to the site's new terms of use, anything you post on Facebook is owned by Facebook in perpetuity, even after you cancel your Facebook account.
Would such an outrageous claim hold up in court? "Yes!" says Carolyn E. Wright of photoattorney.com, which emphasizes that photographers should not post their images on Facebook.
Read more.

2 comments:

Luna-See said...

They caved: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/17/facebook-backtracks-under-community-pressure-goes-back-to-old-tos-for-now/

Craig Mohr said...

Will have to wait and see since they backtracked "for now".