Do note constraints, still present -- "each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof". For the service itself, I'm note sure they can get by with less simply to display your content to users, in conjunction with advertising, in all jurisdictions.
The promotion issue is a bit stickier, but here's what I see; under the old terms, if you canceled your account and you happened to be featured in an ad they currently had in use, they'd have to quickly pull and update that ad, and if they didn't do so quickly enough, they would be in violation of your copyright on the content. That's a big risk exposure for them, I can see why they wouldn't want that to continue. So they're claiming the right to run that advertisement indefinitely, which is an over-reach the other direction. But it's only for promoting facebook, not for arbitrary promotion of other products.
I don't think they have, for example, the right to publish an anthology of articles they grab off facebook, any more than anybody else does.
I think FB is highly overrated but it has been nice to renew contact with old friends. I hardly upload any content there because of their ToS.
The main point to take away (as I understand it) is that you should delete all your content prior to deleting an account so there aren't lots of dangling links showing up in your friends' Walls
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Date: 2009-02-16 08:56 pm (UTC)The promotion issue is a bit stickier, but here's what I see; under the old terms, if you canceled your account and you happened to be featured in an ad they currently had in use, they'd have to quickly pull and update that ad, and if they didn't do so quickly enough, they would be in violation of your copyright on the content. That's a big risk exposure for them, I can see why they wouldn't want that to continue. So they're claiming the right to run that advertisement indefinitely, which is an over-reach the other direction. But it's only for promoting facebook, not for arbitrary promotion of other products.
I don't think they have, for example, the right to publish an anthology of articles they grab off facebook, any more than anybody else does.
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Date: 2009-02-17 12:49 am (UTC)B
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Date: 2009-02-17 01:10 am (UTC)Catherine
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Date: 2009-02-17 08:58 pm (UTC)The main point to take away (as I understand it) is that you should delete all your content prior to deleting an account so there aren't lots of dangling links showing up in your friends' Walls