Facebook — Exposed!

special thanks to daniel hall on this post. he pointed me towards some disturbing language in the fine print of facebook’s terms and conditions. are you aware that your intellectual property rights (ipr) are not protected on your favorite social website? if you’re an expert in these matters, or you were previously made aware of facebook’s policies with regards to creators’ ipr, then please comment. this is outrageous! here is the exact language that was brought to my attention — by posting user content to any part of the site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such user content for any purpose on or in connection with the site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such user content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.