Re:Facebook TOS Change: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You ...
by gdee on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @07:16AM
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>> It also says they do everything in accordance with the DMCA. The one thing people don't understand about the DMCA is that whilst it might be evil, it also protects individuals as much as companies because every single photo, sentence or anything you or I make or write are immediately copy protected in all western countries.
1. Warning: Wrong conflation detected. DMCA != copyright
2. Warning: Wrong conflation detected. copyright != "copy protected" (copyleft = copyright, copyleft = "copy invited")
3. DMCA is neither universal nor universal to western countries. It's actually no universal to anything. Just an internal USA law.
Facebooks ToS explicitly state that they respect the IP rights of others and that they will remove any infringing content, or for repeat offenders their account will permanently be suspended (presumably their email will be banned too). It also says they do everything in accordance with the DMCA. The one thing people don't understand about the DMCA is that whilst it might be evil, it also protects individuals as much as companies because every single photo, sentence or anything you or I make or write are immediately copy protected in all western countries.