Excerpt from: The Consumerist (click for full article)
With hours to go before Thanksgiving, Facebook sent out a little e-mail last week alerting users to some proposed changes to the company’s privacy policies. In response, a number of users have copy/pasted a supposed legal notice they think will protect their status updates and images from being used commercially. It won’t.
By joining Facebook, you have already agreed to license the content you post. Simply posting a legal notice declaring your independence from terms you’ve already agreed to (whether you read them or not) won’t change the facts.
“You can tell Facebook how it is all you like — and even demand Mark Zuckerberg give you his firstborn child if he doesn’t obey your demands,” writes GigaOm’s Jeff John Roberts. “But that doesn’t mean your claims have any legal effect.”
Regarding the popping-up of these legal notices, Jeff Bercovici writes on Forbes.com, “As any anthropologist can tell you, introducing a new threat into an information-starved society inevitably results in the adoption of new superstitions as frightened individuals grasp at anything that might offer protection.”
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