Facebook, again.

[arylla]

Okay, I just saw a law school student post that weird little FB copyright thing and now I'm confused. I mean, it's total nonsense, right? You kinda already gave FB the permission to use (not own, use) your content when you agreed to its terms of service? And a status update isn't a legally binding document that will overrule your agreement to those

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[mohya]

Ich hab dazu heute früh das hier gefunden: http://gawker.com/5963225/that-facebook-copyright-thing-is-meaningless-and-you-should-stop-sharing-it

[arylla]

Aha! Das macht Sinn. Grundsätzlich dachte ich mir schon, dass das Ding Blödsinn ist, aber ich war dann doch neugierig, was diese ganzen zitierten Gesetze damit zu tun haben sollen. Danke für den Link! :)

[erynwen]

Soweit ich weiß, sind diese "Ich finde die neuen AGBs von Facebook" Statuspost Quatsch. Wenn man nicht mit den AGBs von Facebook einverstanden ist, muss man schon seinen Account löschen, alles andere ist ein Einverständnis zur Nutzung der Userinformationen.

[arylla]

Ja eben, das dachte ich mir halt auch ... steht ja auch klar und deutlich in den AGBs (ja, ich hab sie mir gestern abend durchgelesen, weil mich dieses Meme sehr beschäftigt hat; ich neige zum Overthinking :D).

[oeppis]

Yeah, they're a load of bollocks. I think if you're not happy with facebook, it's a bit of a 'my way of the highway' type of situation - though I'm sure if you were to delete your account, the content would still be there. It gets on my nerves a bit that people are so wound up about facebook doing things like this but none of them bother to leave the thing! Grumble grumble grumble...

[arylla]

Yes, I think it doesn't get completely deleted, because you've probably interacted with friends who shared your content or posted something about you, and their accounts are still active. But still, as long as your on FB, you give it the permission to use your stuff, and if you want to change that, you need to do more than copy & paste a status update. (I can't help but think it's rather sad that that's considered a kind of activism these days ... reminds me of that silly breast cancer awareness meme that was going around a few years ago.)