Comment by austincheney
7 years ago
Clearly there is a big disconnect here. It seems somebody is suggesting there should be a correlation between a user removing content from their account and Facebook destroying some of Facebook property.
Anything submitted to Facebook is the property of Facebook. Users have no business telling Facebook to destroy Facebook property.
Facebook disagrees: "You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook"
https://www.facebook.com/terms.php
It also says 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 link addresses your concerns by clarifying a prior form of the above mentioned policy: http://legalteamusa.net/tacticalip/2013/02/11/does-facebook-...
I suspect the Facebook IP Policy is a standard blanket of legal compliance if the following is that policy: https://www.facebook.com/help/intellectual_property
In short Facebook can do anything they want with the IP content you provide to them. It also identifies, by example, IP content as media you provide to them. For that material the policy is pretty clear, but what about other material? What about textual content that is typed into Facebook and identified relationships? It seems this information is covered by the same policies and is IP subject to Facebook's use.
My understanding of Facebook policy is also likely dated as their terms change periodically. The current policy is dated at 30 January 2015.
If you read a bit further, it says the license ends when you and the other users with whom you have shared the content delete it, which was the case we were discussing.
> Anything submitted to Facebook is the property of Facebook.
I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion.
Are we to accept that this is how it works simply because Facebook says this is how it works?
You accept that when you join.
Users didn't accept anything just because they checked a checkbox next to a link to an ever-changing jumble of legalese to get past a screen. This isn't agreement, it's manufactured consent.
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Facebook's terms of services agreement that you must consent to in order to open or maintain your account. These are the rules not because Facebook says so, but because you say so when you agree to their terms.
Let's be clear here: I'm not the Facebook user in question. I've never uploaded a video to Facebook and never will.
Users didn't sign or agree to anything just because they checked a checkbox next to a link to an ever-changing jumble of legalese to get past a screen. This isn't agreement, it's manufactured consent.
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