Week 6

Tutespark

Leading on from the lecture on online privacy & social networking....

Who has the right to use your creations?

Who owns the content you put on the internet on various sites?

This includes pictures, video, text, etc?

Think about all the content you upload onto social networking sites - Do you own it?

 For an example of Facebook website, we own the contents and information we post online. But once when we publicsh contents or information with a setting showing everyone, it means that we are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use our contents and information, and to associate them with us. Such as pictures and videos we uploaded, texts we wrote on Facebook,etc.

The terms and conditions of Fcaebook was changed in Februrary 2009, which is "anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later.” When we post contents on the Facebook, it means that we authorise and direct them to make copies as they deem necessaru in order to facilate the posting and storage of our user data on the website.

By posting user contents and information to any part of the site, it automatically grant the permission and represent and warrant that we have the right to grant, to Facebook company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising.

Users of Facebook could remove the items they upload in any time, if we choose to remove our user content,the license granted above would automaticallu expire. However, we are accknowleded that Facebook may retain copies of user data even after our accounts were terminated.

Facebook retain full ownership of all of our contents, Information and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with the content we post on the website.

Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, said that the philosophy “that people own their information and control who they share it with has remained constant.” Despite the complaints, he did not indicate the language would be revised.

Reference list

Statement of Rights and Responsibilities: Sharing your content and information. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/terms.php

Stelter, B. (2009, Febrarury 16). Facebook's Users Ask Who Own Information [Press relaese]. The New York Times, New York. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/technology/internet/17facebook.html

Remedies Under Copyright Laws against Internet Content Thieves. [Image] (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.free-legal-document.com/images/copyright-laws-internet.jpg

Twitter vs. Facebook. [Image] (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00626/Facebook_62644016x9.jpg