Friday, September 3, 2010

Week 6 - tutespark

This week we had Daniel as our guest speaker, he spoke about social networking... He asked us: "Who owns the content (pics, videos and text) you put on the internet on various sites and who has the rights to your creations?"


According to Chris Crum on WebProNews "According to Twitter's terms of service, you own your content, but Twitter does host it and they have control over it regardless of whether or not you own it."


According to the Facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities under Sharing Your Content and Information

You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:


  1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to yourprivacy 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 unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
retrieved from - http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

According to Myspace terms and conditions under Proprietary Rights in Content on MySpace. 


6.1 MySpace does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, applications, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you transmit, submit, display or publish (“post”) on, through or in connection with the MySpace Services. After posting your Content on, through or in connection with the MySpace Services, you continue to retain any such rights that you may have in your Content, subject to the limited license herein. By posting any Content on, through or in connection with the MySpace Services, you hereby grant to MySpace a limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on, through or in connection with the MySpace Services, including, without limitation, through the MySpace Services to applications, widgets, websites or mobile, desktop or other services which are linked with your MySpace account (collectively, “Linked Services”), including, without limitation, distributing part or all of the MySpace Services and any Content included therein, in any media formats and through any media channels, except that Content marked “private” will not be distributed by MySpace outside the MySpace Services and Linked Services.


Read more: http://www.myspace.com/Modules/Common/Pages/TermsConditions.aspx#ixzz10PP3C1KP

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