Date:         Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:18:27 -0500
Reply-To:     Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
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From:         Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
Subject:      Re: Facebook: it OWNS copyright on YOUR images
Comments: To: Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM>
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At 06:30 PM 2/16/2010, Andrew Grebneff wrote...
>Warning: Facebook claims copyright on every image you put on the site.
>This is crooked as hell but it may be legal in some countries eg USA.

They don't claim what you say they claim. Did you bother to check
before making your inflammatory posting?

 From the Facebook TOS ( http://www.facebook.com/terms.php ):

"You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook...For
content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos
and videos..., 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."

All of which makes perfect sense. They simply need permission to
distribute your content via their site, which is _exactly_ what
Facebook users intend.