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once you share something with people, they need to be able to display it for ever to whom you've shared it with) I am skeptical. Where I work, we're constantly
by neilk 18y ago
once you share something with people, they need to be able to display it for ever to whom you've shared it with)
I am skeptical. Where I work, we're constantly dealing with these sorts of cases where current privacy settings don't quite match past sharing actions. If we can deal with these problems, so can Facebook.
I'm sure the lawyers wanted to have maximum rights solely to protect FB from insane lawsuits. It's not a nefarious plan to sell your drunken clubbing photos. But they failed to achieve balance here.
- mechanical_fish 18y agoWhere I work, we're constantly dealing with these sorts of cases Is your user base the size of Facebook's? There's a certain percentage of human beings who file insane lawsuits. The more users you have, the greater the odds that you will sample one of them. Become a large enough company, and you'll need an entire legal staff just to respond to each week's pile of new lawsuits.
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- mechanical_fish 18y agoI don't think Yahoo mail or any of the other big mail providers find it necessary to assert ownership rights over content... I'm no lawyer, but my guess is that email has relatively well-established case law. Email is old tech, and it's substantially similar to paper mail, which is really old tech, older than US law itself. Whereas there's not a lot of case law about, say, a Facebook app which allows you to superimpose LOLcat-style captions on your friends' photos. Or a Facebook app (which I've just thought up, but which may also already exist) that allows you to ask your friends to sing phrases into their computer's microphone, then helps you construct a techno dance tune out of those phrases. Or any of the hundreds of other Facebook apps that encourage you to use your friends' data in novel ways.