Comments on: The Facebook TOS Controversy

By: Quora

Quora — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:55:37 +0000

How can a contemporary artist utilize the notion of ‘open source’ without losing authorship?…

Open source is usually not unconditionally open. For example, Creative Commons has a 2×3 matrix of degrees of open-ness (http://creativecommons.org/choose). While all creative commons licenses require that the author is given proper attribution, those …

By: An about-Face | Tommy Donovan.com

An about-Face | Tommy Donovan.com — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:52:06 +0000

[...] So most of us woke up this morning to the “news” that Facebook reversed their recent controversial policy about owning your content on there, [...]

By: An Eclectic Mind » Interesting Links, February 2009

An Eclectic Mind » Interesting Links, February 2009 — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:21:27 +0000

[...] The Facebook TOS Controversy – Yet ANOTHER take on the Facebook TOS controversy. On PlagiarismToday. [...]

By: EFF Announces TOS Tracker | PlagiarismToday

EFF Announces TOS Tracker | PlagiarismToday — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:53:20 +0000

[...] the Facebook TOS controversy in February revealed, changes to the TOS can be dangerous to user privacy, security and [...]

By: David Sanger

David Sanger — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:18:54 +0000

Jonathan - Another TOS controversy is brewing with Seesmic , the popular video sharing site.Here's part of their TOSWhile you own all of your own User-Generated Content, you hereby grant us, our licensees of the Applications and business partners a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use and exploit your User-Generated Content for any purpose.it gets worse, extending to " videos, photographs, images or likenesses of you, or in which you may be included with others."Perhaps this is best in a separate thread.

By: davidsanger

davidsanger — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:18:54 +0000

By: The price to pay « tonestandard

The price to pay « tonestandard — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:49:23 +0000

[...] your readers coming from? The online diary was an avatar, a digital representative of a person, and much like Facebook discovered, the personal and mercantile make a controversial mix. Even the terminology gave it away: these [...]

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:15:18 +0000

Thanks! Looking into this as a column for next week!

By: Facebook gets democracy — Jen Reeves - New Media Mind

Facebook gets democracy — Jen Reeves - New Media Mind — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:16:13 +0000

[...] a huge revolt against Facebook’s Terms of Service the company announced it plans to go about things [...]

By: Voyagerfan5761

Voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:04:24 +0000

Responding to your call for TOS Showdown contenders, I immediately thought of photo-sharing sites. Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Webshots, Photobucket, Zooomr, and even Facebook/MySpace (since they have photo apps) would be good for comparison, I think.Sorry it took so long; I read this post in Google Reader Mobile and Disqus doesn't work in Pocket IE (WM2003SE). Then I was out of town until late last night. So this is the first opportunity I've had to comment.