According to The Consumerist, “Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later.”
Old terms of service stated that rights expired once you removed content, but now once you post, they own it forever. Here’s an excerpt:
“You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, worldwide license to use, copy, publish, store, publicly perform or display, transmit, reformat, modify, edit and distribute any User Content you post…”
Is this controversy overblown or should people be worried? Other services aren’t nearly as bold. Flickr lets you keep your content rights. Myspace only uses your content for myspace related services. Twitter owns no rights. Youtube rights to your content eventually expire. Only Facebook has irrevocable, perpetual rights to your content! Users don’t seem to care, but should they? Full Story
