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Questions On Social Content Ownership After Facebook Policy Changes
By Kaitlin Mara on 23 February 2009 @ 3:04 pm
As the world becomes increasingly digitised, the question of who owns the uploaded pieces of people’s lives — their photographs, their missives to friends, their posted musings and blog entries — is clearly an issue capable of generating a lot of passion.
This was powerfully evidenced last week when popular social networking site Facebook changed its terms of service [1], removing a clause that automatically relinquished rights to all uploaded data when a user closed his or her account and causing an uproar over users’ rights and privacy [2].
The site quickly replaced the clause [3] in response to the outcry, explaining that the company is still trying to find a way to satisfy contradictory user desires [4] to control their posted content and also to use the site to share it.
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URLs in this post:
[1] terms of service: http://www.facebook.com/terms.php
[2] causing an uproar over users’ rights and privacy: http://consumerist.com/5150175/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-we-can-do-anything-we-want-with-your-content-forever
[3] replaced the clause: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=54746167130
[4] explaining that the company is still trying to find a way to satisfy contradictory user desires: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=54434097130
[5] US Industry View: Can Content Survive Online? (Podcast): http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/10/21/industry-view-can-content-survive-online-podcast/
[6] Regulators’ Role Seen Rising As E-Content Tied To Devices: http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/09/29/regulators-role-seen-rising-as-e-content-tied-to-devices/
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