Lets start circulating this message instead of the false one that is going around!!!! Messages about protecting your copyright or privacy rights on Facebook by posting a particular legal notice to your Facebook wall are variants of an item circulated several years ago positing that posting a similar notice on a web site would protect that sites operators from prosecution for piracy. In both cases the claims were erroneous, an expression of the mistaken belief the use of some simple legal talisman — knowing enough to ask the right question or post a pertinent disclaimer — will immunize one from some undesirable legal consequence. The law just doesnt work that way. First off, the problem this ineffective solution supposedly addresses is a non-existent one: Facebook isnt claiming copyright to the personal information, photographs, and other material that their users are posting to the social network. In response to rumors about copyright issues that began circulating in November 2012 after Facebook announced they were considering revoking users rights to vote on proposed policy changes, the company issued a statement noting that: There is a rumor circulating that Facebook is making a change related to ownership of users information or the content they post to the site. This is false. Anyone who uses Facebook owns and controls the content and information they post, as stated in our terms. They control how that content and information is shared. That is our policy, and it always has been. Click here to learn more: facebook/policies. Read more at snopes/computer/facebook/privacy.asp#g3cjpVIyUZkzi1tr.99
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 01:00:00 +0000
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