Facebook owns you

Triangle! Exclamation Point!

Triangle! Exclamation Point!

Not to alarm you or anything, but if you’re on Facebook, and have posted pictures of yourself, your friends and your family, (so, pretty much all of civilized society,) then you’ve just lost all copyrights to those pictures.

Not that a lot of us will ever be really famous, but that drunk picture of you with the pentel pen boobs is now someone else’s property.

From here:
You are solely responsible for the User Content that you Post on or through the Facebook Service. 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. You represent and warrant that you have all rights and permissions to grant the foregoing licenses.

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