Big changes are happening over at Facebook. The company announced it would revert to its old terms of use in a blog posting. The decision followed wide-reaching outrage over the service’s updated policieson user-generated content. The changes essentially gave Facebook a “perpetual” license to use any uploaded materials within advertising or any number of other venues–even if the user had long since deleted the content, or even deleted the account.
What implications does this have for Social Networking? Given Facebook’s push to have rights to all content published, it remains unclear. Read a related story here.
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