Not sure how many of you were following this whole Facebook terms of service fiasco. Pretty much Facebook created some crazily controversial clause saying that it owned all the content that users uploaded…forever. Meaning, even if you completely delete..get rid of…close..shut down…do away with..etc, your account, they still own the content you put on the site.
Crazy much?
I’m already not comfortable with them having rights to what I upload there and now they want to keep it forever…forever ever (outkast). Yeah, not going for it. For photographers, our copyright is everything. And I’m definitely not giving it away to Facebook.
Well, it seems that they’ve come to their senses (for now) and backtracked the policy. I’m waiting to see what they come up with. But regardless, I won’t upload anything to Facebook again. I’m glad this controvery started over the new clause, but honestly, the old terms weren’t (and still aren’t) cool.
Here are some links to what the rest of the blog world is saying about it:
Mashable…”Smart move, Facebook. Unlike the breakdown over Beacon, which lasted for weeks, Facebook has diffused this crisis in a matter of days.”
The Inquisitr…”To me, that change makes no difference, because it was the TOS to begin with which was where I objected, and many others have, the archive rights only served to highlight the flaws.”
Rubenerd…”Did people really think a closed, gated community such as Facebook where external search engines weren’t allowed access and where your uploaded media was only available to people who created accounts would breed ethical behaviour? Did people really think Facebook would behave ethically at all in the first place?”
