You sell one persons personal artwork. You’re done. That person owns their own. That’s why their name is own it.
I know that the facebook team is saying what they need to say probably after having a frightening meeting with their lawyers. You have put your behind on the line now and everyone knows what your intentions are. You mess up one time, you’re out.
“This message is just one to try to calm us down so you don’t have lawsuits up the ying yang! I want to see Facebook give a press release or press conference on CNN announcing publicly what you are doing. That way you have no way out of it.“ Facebook wouldn’t exist without it’s users. Your ads wouldn’t be clicked on without your users. Shady business will always bite you on your ass. Let’s ’see’ if you keep your end of the deal??“Remember in no time there will be yet another bigger and better social network taking over the net.” That’s Bree in response to advertising company Facebook’s embarrassingly blatant effort to sneak modified Terms of Service past the people who keep it in business.
In pure, unadulterated PR-babble, “Last week, we returned to our previous Terms of Use as we worked on a new set of governing documents that would more clearly explain the relationship between Facebook and its users,” says chief advertising exec Mark Zuckerman, failing to point out he had zero choice in the matter. Since then, “I’ve been excited to see how much people care about Facebook and how willing they are to contribute to the process of governing the site.”
“Our main goal at Facebook is to help make the world more open and transparent,” he says which, translated, reads, “Our main goal at Facebook is to make users believe we’re open and transparent so we can secretly get on with our main business of selling their data to make as rich.”
We’re starting this off by publishing two new documents for your review and comment. The first is the Facebook Principles, which defines your rights and will serve as the guiding framework behind any policy we’ll consider—or the reason we won’t consider others. The second document is the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, which will replace the existing Terms of Use. With both documents, we tried hard to simplify the language so you have a clear understanding of how Facebook will be run. We’ve created separate groups for each document so you can read them and provide comments and feedback. You can find the Facebook Principles here and the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities here. Before these new proposals go into effect, you’ll also have the ability to vote for or against proposed changes.
#1 by TheLapr at April 29th, 2009
This issue has grown arms and legs. There are even videos and commentary on ares downloads
#2 by Legend's at May 1st, 2009
Ok, here we have yet more about Facebook and there terms and conditions. I have to turn-up my Free Ares Downloads and drowned facebook out of my head!
#3 by Turtle at May 15th, 2009
Why is it that they hold us to such strick guidelines but they can do whatever they want?