Good posts, Amy, thanks!

Thanks so much for your incredible comment – I’m so glad you took the time to share it with the community here.

The Facebook Terms of Service saga has been an interesting one to follow and I don’t think it’s over 🙂 Will keep watching it develop and how third party options like CC can impact those developments.

Thanks again

You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how we share your content through your privacy and application settings.

However, FB claims the right to use your photos, per your privacy settings:

For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (“IP content”), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (“IP License”). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account (except to the extent your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it).

I don’t see how a CC license will be able to impact how Facebook uses your intellectual property; in other words, I don’t think you can change the terms of use. However, a CC license *will* impact how other Facebook members use your IP.

I completely agree with your take on CC vs Facebook terms and conditions. My hope is that people take advantage of the Creative Commons opportunity to self-elect terms for their content instead of allowing Facebook to make restrictions or decisions over them.

Thanks for weighing in!

What this will mean in the long term I’m not sure but it’s clear that the current “we own everything you say, do and upload on our networks” is out of step with how users demand their content is treated.

I would put money on Facebook not having an issue with Creative Commons purely because of the backlash it would create. In effect CC would superseed FB’s T&C ‘s and FB can’t do a thing about it or risk another Beacon or T&C change backlash.

Just my thoughts.

John