Facebook

I got into a legal discussion at work which ended with me looking up the TOS on Facebook. It seems that anything you put on facebook, you give them the rights to it. You can still use it yourself, but only non-commercially.

ETA: Nevermind! edgehopper has cleared this up for me! (See below.) I wouldn't be surprised, though, if one of the networking websites did try to stake a claim on the stuff posted there. Maybe I'm just being paranoid.

( Here's the pertinent section )

Any legal-minded people out there want to weigh in on this? It seems like a massive land-grab of intellectual property--the upshot seems to be that if you uploaded a photo on facebook and then wrote a book and wanted to include the photo, even though you took it, you'd have to license it from facebook. Even when you license a photo to be published you don't give up the rights to it, under any normal circumstances. If I wrote a story and put it on facebook, essentially, I wouldn't be able to sell it. So are people aware that they're giving their intellectual property away to facebook?

ETA: Livejournal, on the other hand, only claims rights to the software that makes the site run and their own trademarks. They specifically state that journal content is the property of the poster, probably to prevent them from being liable for it.