Facebook Terms of Use Update

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For those that took an interest in my earlier post regarding Facebook’s revised Terms of Use “Facebook’s Terms of Use: From Bad to Beyond Worse“, news is just now coming out that Facebook has reverted to an older version of their Terms of Use dated September 23, 2008. Another notable development is that Facebook has created a Facebook Bill of Rights group to solicit feedback to future changes to their Terms of Use. Given the escalating buzz online about the Terms of Use change on blogs, social news sites like Digg.com and a pending Federal complaint someone at Facebook got the message.

While this news is a step in the right direction the older Terms of Use is still not ideal. Given that a newly created forum to discuss the Terms of Use has now been opened it would appear they’re making efforts to move things in a positive direction. Time will tell.

For more see Facebook Launches Facebook Bill of Rights, Reverts to Previous Terms of Use – RWW

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Posted by Jim on 02.18.2009 at 3:46 am
Tagged: Copyright, News & Current Events, Photography, Technology, Web , Copyright, Facebook

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Dawood Mamedoff

I think the main danger was included in the very initial version of Terms of Use. It was about the right to modify Terms of Use without any notice to users.
Here are main dangers of Facebook's Terms of Use summarized:

http://www.myhowtoos.com/en/red-hot/73-what-are...

Jim

Aaron I would agree the Terms of Use even in the older form is unacceptable, but its enough to persuade me to not delete my account... yet. I'd like to see Facebook adjust their ToU to improve even what had been in place over a year ago. Corporate lawyers have run amok with their terms and its out of line with real world use by their members particularly those uploading copyrighted digital assets such as photographs, video and music.

ahockley

It's a step in the right direction, but their terms are still horrible from a photographer and content rights standpoint. The only thing that's changed is you can now pull down your work, but for any photographers that want a presence on Facebook, you're still giving them an unrestricted license to use your photos or other content in any way they imagine.