<!DOCTYPE html><html lang=
"en"
><head><meta charset=
"utf-8"
><title><mark> Example</title></head><body><p>In 2009, Facebook made a bold grab to own everyone
's content,<em>forever</em>. This is the text they put in their terms of service:</p><blockquote>You hereby grant Facebook an <mark>irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license</mark> (with the right to sublicense) to <mark>use, copy, publish</mark>, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), <mark>any user content you post</mark> on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or enable a user to post.</blockquote><p>Fortunately, they'
ve since backtracked
and
weakened the language considerably.Here's the relevant section today:</p><blockquote><mark>You own all of the content
and
information you post on Facebook</mark>,
and
you can control how it is shared through your privacy
and
application settings. In addition: 1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos
and
videos (
"IP content"
), you</mark> specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy
and
application settings: <mark>you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to
use
any content that you post</mark> on
or
in connection with Facebook. <mark>This license ends when you
delete
your content
or
your account</mark> unless your content has been shared with others,
and
they have not deleted it.</blockquote></body></html>