I recently went to register for a Facebook account and noticed the following in the terms:
When you post User Content to the Site, you authorize and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of the User Content on the Site. 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, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, 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. You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content. Facebook does not assert any ownership over your User Content; rather, as between us and you, subject to the rights granted to us in these Terms, you retain full ownership of all of your User Content and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your User Content.
I did not see any way to opt out of this and wanted to make other professionals aware of their policy.



I read that when my husband signed up. It’s horrible that they do that. And the worst part is that almost No one reads it before signing up!
You know, I almost didn’t read it either, Haley. I still remember hearing the debate in my head…to read or not. I’m so glad I did! Now it’s making me wonder who else does this, too. The reason I did take the time to read it is that I remember using filmloop to make a slideshow of our family vacation for myspace. When I was finished, I went to delete the program off my computer, and a warning came up and said that they would own my images if I did. blink. I think I have read everything ever since.
It is a shame that people don’t read the fine print any more and wonder why they get taken advantage of.