• Facebook's Getting Back to Basics

    Facebook's Getting Back to Basics

    Techtree News Staff, Feb 18, 2009 1940 hrs IST

    Reverts to its original Terms of Use

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 After the turmoil The Consumerist originally started whilst Facebook-spotting, the social networking site has been forced to change its Terms of Use back to the original.


Subsequent to the news report that Facebook's Terms of Use suggest that it owns members' content and can use it in any way it wants, users across the globe have been very concerned.


Just yesterday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had posted an entry on the Facebook blog explaining that the changes in the Terms of Use of the website were just to make them politically correct, albeit in a language which was misconstrued by the common people.


 


Now the social networking site has decided to get back to basics and use a language which commoners understand for its Terms of Use. After all, more than 175 million people use Facebook. Although this is going to take time - couple of weeks, says Zuckerberg.


 


For now, you can try decoding the original Terms of Use:



By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content.

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