FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization

Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by vladmk on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:09PM (#25366702)

Putting your data publicly online can be not only used by Facebook but all your friends too, hell sometimes profile images end up on google, so just because they had no real idea it shouldn’t be facebooks fault if your friends decide to print screen your photo and redistribute it. That data you put out publicly is public once it’s in public domain the public will use it

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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by alisonkisk on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @08:08PM (#25368144)

Disney seems to have a different idea of "public domain" from you. Why don't I have the copyright to my life, if Disney has the copyright to Iron Man?

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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by Vespasian on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:30PM (#25369309)

Of course you do (GP is wrong) at least for media which you create that clears the threshold for copyright.

The difference is that Disney grants license to its content after (potentially drawn out) negotiations and payments, while the typical Facebook users "Agrees and accepts to grant Facebook a worldwide license"

BTW it doesn't confer a license (mostly) to anybody else but normal users do not sue.

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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by rolph on Thursday December 10, 2020 @04:31PM (#25379000)

collect every piece of data about yourself you can think of, copyright the publication, issue DMCA taketowns on your intellectual property

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