Facebook is falling, your rights are affected.

The ever famous and seemingly fantastic Facebook has turned into a greedy large social portal. Claiming usage over individual copyright materials especially photos. Yahoo! once came up with this idea but photographers whom knew about it and are particular about copyright usage just stay out of Yahoo’s Flickr. Its an unjust policy!

The last September 23, 2008 revision of Facebook terms changed their rights to be able use your photos which you uploaded and here it goes:

…By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the 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, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing…

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