I have been reading several of the different sites that have talked about Facebook’s new doctrine that basically says that they own any content you upload to their site. That is absolutely ridiculous. I can understand that they might want to own anything that you create for their site (like the coding for Applications), but owning things like your pictures and notes? That’s crazy. And the way their new thing is worded, once it’s in their archives, it’s theirs.
Now, I’m not a scholar at legal issues, though I was pretty good at arguing for laws to be changed when I was in Social Work, but it seems like they shouldn’t be able to claim ownership of things that they have not done themselves. Is that why they have the whole “we don’t want anything that infringes upon copyright”, so that they can rip people off? Well, last time I checked, copyright belongs to the person who made a given thing. Since they changed their TOS, without having people agree to a new one, then they did not make a binding contract with the person who is using their service. You can’t just change a contract midstream without warning people and having them say, “Oh, I agree to that” or “Oh, I don’t agree to that”. I know I would not have agreed to it. I may upload like one picture of myself a month for their service, but I don’t think I’ll be using it for my YSA pictures anymore.
