http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/11/09/more-thoughts-on-facebooks-social-ads/ Information, Law, and the Law of Information Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:08:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/11/09/more-thoughts-on-facebooks-social-ads/comment-page-1/#comment-25875 It’s Not an Unpaid Endorsement, It’s a ‘Social Ad,’ Redux | Digital Daily | John Paczkowski | AllThingsD Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:06:10 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/11/09/more-thoughts-on-facebooks-social-ads#comment-25875 [...] Facebook would likely argue users agree to this when they accept the company’s terms of service, which grant it license to use their “content” in pretty much any way it chooses. By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof.” [...] [...] Facebook would likely argue users agree to this when they accept the company’s terms of service, which grant it license to use their “content” in pretty much any way it chooses. By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof.” [...]

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