Remember, You Gave it to Them

From the jump, I've warned users, students, student-athletes and anyone who would listen that you were voluntarily giving up way, way to much data to Facebook.

For those that might have missed it, Facebook changed its Terms of Service last week to make it painfully clear that what was yours, is theirs.

Key quote here from today's WOMMA Word:

This month, when Facebook updated its terms, it deleted a provision that said users could remove their content at any time, at which time the license would expire. Further, it added new language that said Facebook would retain users' content and licenses after an account was terminated.

That's right, even after you leave Facebook, they still own you. And as I have repeatedly tried to get clear to student-athletes regarding copyright issues -- Facebook owns your photos, owns your content. When a rights holder comes after Facebook, they will pass it straight through to the end user for copyright violations.

That will be the one case where what's theirs is really yours -- as in the subpeona.