Facebook Claims Right to Create Derivative Works from Members’ Photos.

Install a piece of software or register at a website and there’s a good chance that you’ll be asked to click a button saying that you’ve read and agreed to the service’s terms and conditions.

There’s an equally good chance that you’ll click that button without even looking at those terms.

That’s understandable. The terms page is usually long, dull and written in legalese. It rarely contains anything of interest and we usually feel that we can trust the companies not to slip in anything to which we wouldn’t agree.

If you’re thinking of uploading images — or anything else — to Facebook though, that would be wrong.

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