Da ieri si parla delle nuove condizioni di utilizzo di FaceBook, ne parla Massimo, ne parla Giovy, ne parla Luca, e ne parla The Consumerist.

In parole povere FaceBook ha variato il contratto di utilizzo sottoscritto dagli utenti, eliminando la clausola che diceva:

“You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content. Facebook does not assert any ownership over your User Content; rather, as between us and you, subject to the rights granted to us in these Terms, you retain full ownership of all of your User Content and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your User Content.“

Resta invece la parte che recita:

“You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.”

Insomma, qualsiasi cosa caricate diventa di proprietà di FaceBook (o quasi), permettendogli di fare ciò che vogliono con il vostro materiale.

Nonostante la risposta di Mark Zuckerberg, in cui spiega la “necessità” di tale cosa, ciò non convince gli utenti della rete, peccato solo che molti utilizzatori di FB sono ignari del contratto che hanno firmato.