2/17/09

Lawyer Writer News Flash: Facebook Claims Full Rights to Everything On Your Facebook Site

Apparently, Facebook has quietly changed its Terms of Service (actually, they did this back on Feb. 4th) and maybe you should know about this.

Unless the complaints carry enough power to change things, right now Facebook owns everything that you put on its site -- that's right, everything that you've placed on your personal facebook page -- and Facebook can distribute and use your stuff for anything that Facebook thinks is a good idea. For Facebook.

Given that there's lots of talk about Social Media these days, especially focusing upon the use of Twitter and Facebook by law firms, this is really big news.


riverScrap has a nice overview.