Patricia Montgomery

Yikes that’s not good I have a blog on that google thing blogger but I never read the terms of service hope it anit the same LOL. Thanks for the heads up !

Oh that’s disgusting! I joined facebook once and couldn’t work it out! So glad I cancelled it!

I knew there was a reason I didn’t put a ton of photos on facebook. What I have there can stay there….but thanks so much for the heads up Patricia. Wow….That is a bit disconcerting.

I want nothing to do with either Facebook OR Myspace, thank you!! Never have!

Nice of you to warn people!!

I read the agreement, and according to what I read, user content is excluded from Facebook’s proprietary rights. In other words, Facebook makes no claim of ownership of anything that a user uploads. Where did you read that Facebook makes a claim of ownership of my user content?

Ownership; Proprietary Rights

“Except for User Content and Applications/Connect Sites, all materials, content and trademarks on the Facebook Service are the property of Facebook and/or its licensors and are protected by all relevant IP laws and other proprietary rights . . .”

I haven’t been on there but once early this morning, and then I logged out. I will have to go and see if I have any notification of it. But according to what Helen Bascom found….it doesn’t pertain to our uploaded personal material. Is that what y’all understand it to be saying?

Thank you for posting this, everyone should take heed

Are you talking about the “License Agreement” changes? That sounds like something I do not wish to participate in. I will be canceling my Facebook account immediately. Thanks for bringing the changes to my attention.

“You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers)”

That sounds very unlawful!!! thanks for the warning. hugsxxx

I just deactivated my account, and here is the reason I gave under the “OTHER” option:

Your License Agreement is contrary to my right to control the distribution and publication of my copyrighted photography and other art as well as my copyrighted writing.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Oh poo I sent my friend some photos of the zoo shots I did as she went too and she added them to her facebook account…............ Oh well I would say she didn’t have permission to post them if anything happened to them!

If they publish any of my work after I have deactivated my account, I will have my attorney write them a nice letter, ;-)

OK I have just notified my friend. She says as her account has a privacy setting of only allowing her friends to see her stuff, this does not apply to her images. Can anyone confirm or deny this as I cannot access that link as I donot have an account.

Oh deep joy! She doesn’t believe me! But i have emailed Facebook for an answer, so that I can clarify it with her! She doesn’t allow her children to be displayed anywhere publically so it will be interesting to see what she does eventually! I know the chances of them using any of the photos on her facebook account are probably nil but that is not the point!

Yoweeeeeeee….........not on Facebook or MySpace, but others.
Many thanks!!!!!!

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Yes… im fuming.. as its a change that i was not aware of.. wonder if it would stand up in court as they have not let us know of the changes !! yes i will not be uploading any more photos… what a disgrace… disrespectful, rude, and lots more things. that might be too naughty to write. I hope in a way that many people cancel their accounts.
Thanks for letting us know, much appreciated.

That’s what I’ve been wondering about, since I never heard anything or been notified by FB regarding ANY changes to their policies, even if their TOS stated that all members would be notified of any changes accordingly. Seems to me that there are many, many, many of us, whom we were never notified of.. I’ve removed a lot of my images already from FB. This stinks!

Facebook have been doing a lot to peeve me lately (removing pet profiles is one of them), so this is just another nail in the coffin – this is total lack of respect for their user base & they need to remember that without users Facebook is a bit fat nothing!!!

I dont understand., so what do you think they are selling our artwork. I dont understand

This is just shit! I’ll be cancelling ym facebook account now. How dare they??!?1

Thank you Patricia for letting me know,Even though I dont have pictures their,My sister-in-law invited me to facebook awhile back and I never have uploaded any pictures, everytime I had logged on I had a bunch of cookies to erase from them..I will let her know too

Would well appear that your information and warning are indeed alarming, but appreciated. I will let my family know as we are all on FaceBook. Thankyou

Well they are claiming rights to all the existing data. In the end if they use your blog, and or photographs in publishing without any more consent than the TOS,,,This is America, you have legal options. Will you “WIN”? Maybe, Maybe not. One thing is certain. Any protection of intellectual property has been diminished by certain countries that refuse to pass or enforce copyright and trade mark laws. Same goes for patient law. They can exchange a period with a comma, a nut and bolt assembly with a weld or rivet, and pretty much publish or manufacture and sell what ever they please in their own countries. So long as consumer nations like America continue to have the best governmental representation of its citizens that money can buy (Thank you lobbyists); the situation will pretty much stay the same. So buy American only.

They are even talking about this on The View right now!!!!

I heard about it on FOX News this morning. And my Zazzle Gallery was linked to their sight. I wonder if my deactiving my account stopped that feed as well.
Anyone else that links Zazzle to Facebook know if deactivating my account was enough to break that link as well.

if you delete you photos now…is it too late?

Cheers for letting us know! GRRR to facebook- privacy and copyright means nothing to some people!

FYI- They cannot use your images if your profile is set to private, the privacy rights overrides the terms.

I wonder what the implications of this are on those who use the Redbubble widget slideshow????

Thanks for letting us know about this. I went to my facebook and if any of you know facebook you are aware that you can “update your status” and if people comment on your status, those comments show up under your status. Well, I updated my status by saying that I was upset with facebook for changing their terms of service without our notification and then I included a link to a foxnews story about it. Interestingly enough, I have had two people comment on my status, I know this because of an e-mail notification that tells me these things, but when you look under my status on facebook there are no comments. When I follow the link thru the e-mail, it brings me to my status but where the comments are supposed to be it says “this posting is no longer available” – Interesting, huh?

that sucks…oh well…. I deactivated my account….and sent a nasty note to the CEO….

Over the past few days, we have received a lot of good feedback about the new terms we posted two weeks ago. Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.

does this apply if i have included my copyright/dig fingerprint tags???

Does this also affect the Redbubble Widgets that some have added to their Facebook?

Have just been to Facebook and there is now a notice above the Profile Page:

_Terms of Use Update

Over the past few days, we have received a lot of feedback about the new terms we posted two weeks ago. Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues that people have raised. For more information, visit the Facebook Blog.

If you want to share your thoughts on what should be in the new terms, check out our group Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities_.

I’d like to know who their corporate lawyer is…..really. Since as an ex-paralegal I can tell you that since at least in the United States you have an “unalienable” right to your own property (for a limited time as determined by copyright and trademark laws in the U.S. now in existence which is 80 years after your death, I believe, if those rights are not “inherited”) that cannot be “waived’ by any contract, this is pure garbage. And that lawyer ought to be disbarred.

Beware on any of these sites, since there are some now that are providing that they may use images posted on their sites for publicity reasons also without your consent, and one I came across even tried to put in their terms of use that they had the right to act as “agent” for any bulk or retail sales on images on their site. Some of these corporate lawyers should be disbarred, since U.S. laws really are even less stringent than other countries, and provide copyright protections for I think it is 80 years now after the death of the artist, if those rights have not been willed or lawfully transferred with their estates.

I know Canada and some other countries provide for even a greater length of time for protection, and for international abuses that would mean the case would be determined according to the laws in the country of origin for the work, from what I’ve read recently, since the problem with websites such as these is that there is always the risk that someone in another country can violate your copyright, and you wouldn’t know about it until they made a fortune (which is good, then that would be even more attractive for the lawyers, so maybe that is why they are misinforming their corporate clients at this point, so they can then clean up on the lawsuits).