facebook- hoax or truth ? :s?

[BeckiiXx.]

ATTENTION: Friday, Facebook will become owner of the publishing rights of ALL your private photos. You need to make a simple change: go to 'account', 'account settings', 'facebook adverts'(along the top), 'ads shown by third parties', choose 'NO ONE' then SAVE. 2 minutes' job. And please Share. (for those who haven't done this yet)..

hoax or truth ?

[dannyboy2111]

it is a hoax its not Real dont believe in any of those messages

[Tanya]

Any website that you post your pic on they already have publishing rights... its all in their terms and conditions. So editing your account settings will not stop this...

[Jeff]

Tanya: Not true. Facebook, like most websites, agree to let the writer or photographer retain the rights. Here's Facebook's TOS:

Other than that, this is an oft-recurring hoax.

[aiza0606]

It is a hoax.

"According to this warning message, on Friday, Facebook will become the owner of the publishing rights for all your private photographs. The message provides information supposedly detailing how to prevent this impending event from affecting you. It also asks that you share the information with others so that they can change their settings as well.

However, the claims in the message are misleading and inaccurate. In fact, as part of its terms of use, Facebook has always held the right to use and display content that you post on the network. As Facebook puts it, when you add content to the network that is covered by intellectual property (IP) rights (such as photographs), you are thereby granting Facebook a "non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook".

While you can control how the content you post on Facebook is shared, this "IP License" has long been a part of Facebook's terms of use in one form or another. However, this IP license does not mean that Facebook actually owns the content you post. Nor are there any indications that this is about to change on "Friday". You always retain the copyright to the content you post on the network, but when you upload content you are effectively giving Facebook permission to use and display that content. According to Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, this permission to use content ends if you delete the content "unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it".

Moreover, the instructions included in the message will not stop Facebook from using this IP License as outlined above. If you follow the steps in the warning message, you will be presented with a settings page that includes the following message:
Facebook does not give third party applications or ad networks the right to use your name or picture in ads. If we allow this in the future, the setting you choose will determine how your information is used.
Thus, changing the setting to "No One" as suggested in the warning, will presumably stop your information from being shown to your Facebook friends via third party applications or ad networks if Facebook decides to allow this in the future. However, even if Facebook does bring in this change in the future - the fact that it has provided this setting to begin with suggests that such a change is likely - altering the setting to "No One" will not have any effect on Facebook's normal IP License implementation.

In fact, there are no credible reports that indicate that Facebook is about to change its policies in a way that will give it the right to retain the actual copyright on IP content posted on the network. The message vaguely specifies Friday as the day when the change is set to take place. However, it does not include a date, thus ensuring that the message will continue circulating long after the first and subsequent Fridays have come and gone."