Posted on 12/18/2012 12:42:47 PM PST by beaversmom
“Simple. Do NOT use FB”
Easy for you to say - you probably don’t spend half of your waking hours on FB, keeping up your status.
I guess it’s easy for me, as I don’t do that either.
This is from the Instagram site just now:
“Ownership Rights Instagram users own their content and Instagram does not claim any ownership rights over your photos. Nothing about this has changed. We respect that there are creative artists and hobbyists alike that pour their heart into creating beautiful photos, and we respect that your photos are your photos. Period.”
Have they given up the ownership thing? Also, does anyone use the Amazon Cloud? Don’t they have something similar?
Thanks. Sounds like weasel words, though.
How would this fly:
Hey RIAA/MPAA: I’m not going to claim ownership rights to the works of your artists whose music/films I download (and perhaps sell on a street corner). I respect your artists’ rights to the ownership of those creative works. Period. So we’re good, right? Right? /s
As if it will just stop with the Instagram content. People have repeatedly poo pooed the notion that this is the power grabs that the heads at Facebook are doing.
They have temporarily rolled back this plan. The legal language will be changed, I suspect that the attempts at ownership will continue.
And some will probably proclaim (such as Snopes) will probably proclaim that because the offending lines have been removed from the current policy, that it was all an unsubstantiated hoax. An inboxer rebellion.
And Big Media proclaims that they aren’t rich enough because of theft on the internet. Meanwhile Big Media continues to take the work of others to sell it without paying the creators or acknowledging their rights.
They aren’t stealing it, people gave it to them. It’s the same terms of use most free upload/ share sites have. You put stuff on their hard drive and now they own it. If you want someplace to share your photos that won’t claim ownership pay them, if you don’t pay them you’re not a customer, you’re a content provider.
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