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You Better Get Permission to Use Twitter Photos, Rules Judge

You Better Get Permission to Use Twitter Photos, Rules Judge

By Josh Wolford January 16, 2013

The idea that content made public on social media is fair game for anyone and everyone to use has received a major strike, as a U.S. District Judge has ruled that two news outlets were in the wrong when they …

Playboy’s Nudity Allowed On YouTube [UPDATE] Playboy’s Nudity Allowed On YouTube [UPDATE]
By · June 2, 2011 · 10 Comments

UPDATE: Well that was quick. Within 5-10 minutes of this article being posted, the videos in question have been taken down by YouTube: Here’s another (grainy) screencap from one of the videos, entitled “Slam Dunk.” Original Article: YouTube consistently takes …

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Who Really Owns Your Tweets?
By · September 15, 2009 · 8 Comments

Twitter has made some revisions to its terms of service, to address issues like advertising, tweet ownership, APIs, and spam. There’s not as much news in this as one might expect, but there are some things worth noting, namely, Twitter’s stance on who owns tweets. Are your past tweets important to you? Tell us.

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Facebook TOS Vote To End Today
By · April 23, 2009 · 7 Comments

People who have been procrastinating should know that they’re almost out of time.  Later today, the Facebook governance vote will end, and either the new or the old terms of service will become pretty well permanent.

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Facebook Makes Some Changes
By · March 1, 2009 · 16 Comments

Original Article (update at the end): 

There are a couple of newsworthy Facebook changes going on. The first would be changes to the social network’s terms of service.

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More On Facebook’s TOS
By · February 27, 2009

After what can only be termed a kerfuffle last week over changes to its Terms of Service, Facebook has decided to take some pretty drastic steps to address the issue of content ownership on the social networking site: they’re soliciting input from their users.

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A Wild Week For Facebook, And Its Users
By · February 20, 2009

Facebook has had quite a week. If it is true that there is no such thing as bad publicity then this week has been a social-media-collagewindfall for the social networking giant. I have even read some conspiracy theorists who believe that the whole terms of service ‘incident’ was intended. I’m not sure I can go there but to be honest it does make some sense.

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Facebook Changes Its Terms Back
By · February 18, 2009 · 4 Comments

Mark ZuckerbergFacebook recently changed its terms of service and sparked a bit of controversy.

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Facebook Now Owns All The Content You Put On…Facebook
By · February 16, 2009

As I was sitting down to a nice comfortable night at home I was alerted via Twitter about a change in theterms-of-service Terms of Service (TOS) at Facebook that could be pretty significant. Since I am not totally aware of the protocol for referencing tweets as sources, I will simply give you the whole deal here so the right people can get their Twitter props:

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Nokia ‘Comes With Music’ Is Very Restricted
By · October 6, 2008

 Music Ally blogger Stuart Dredge pointed me toward the Terms & Condit

18 Or Older To Use Google?
By · March 28, 2008

Google has this bit in their terms of service:

You may not use the Services [defined as “Google’s products, software, services and web sites"] and may not accept the Terms if … you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Google

AT&T Just Kidding About Cutting Off Critics
By · October 10, 2007

It’s nice to see AT&T isn’t immune to some heat. The company is reportedly revising its Terms of Service (ToS) agreement after it appeared AT&T reserved the right to terminate service of those critical of them.

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