2009-02-15 Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever."

2009-02-15 Chris Walters Consumerist \Facebook\copyright\terms of service\digital rights http://consumerist.com/5150175/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-we-can-do-anything-we-want-with-your-content-forever Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever." Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever."  Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore.

Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later. Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sublicense it if they want.

&ldquo;Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore.&rdquo;   