"For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it. "
ie: While your content is on Facebook, they can use it for whatever they damn please. The last sentence is particularly worrying; if Facebook sub-licenses your content to an advertiser, it may be considered to have been 'shared with others' and your IP license does not end.
The issues is not that they do, but that they can. That post says 'our privacy policy promises never to..." In fact, after five minutes' trawling, I can't find anything in their policy that says anything of the sort.
I did find this gem:
"If you do not want us to store metadata associated with content you share on Facebook (such as photos), please remove the metadata before uploading the content."
Isn't that lovely! I wonder what proportion of facebook users know what metadata is, let alone how to remove it.
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Date: 2009-12-11 07:59 am (UTC)ie: While your content is on Facebook, they can use it for whatever they damn please. The last sentence is particularly worrying; if Facebook sub-licenses your content to an advertiser, it may be considered to have been 'shared with others' and your IP license does not end.
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Date: 2009-12-11 08:17 am (UTC)http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=110636457130
(via http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/25/1842203/Facebook-Lets-Advertisers-Use-Pictures-Without-Permission?from=rss)
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Date: 2009-12-11 08:47 am (UTC)I did find this gem:
"If you do not want us to store metadata associated with content you share on Facebook (such as photos), please remove the metadata before uploading the content."
Isn't that lovely! I wonder what proportion of facebook users know what metadata is, let alone how to remove it.
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Date: 2009-12-11 09:04 am (UTC)I guess I need to up my paranoia.