Yes people. The very clause people are so worried about in the Facebook Terms of Service which caused serious outcries from its users (and non-users) are also in the Terms of Service of Multiply.
You are solely responsible for the User Content that you Post on or through the Facebook Service. 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. You represent and warrant that you have all rights and permissions to grant the foregoing licenses.
You are solely responsible for the content that you publish or display (hereinafter "Post") on the Multiply.com website, or transmit to other Multiply Members, including but not limited to photos, profiles, messages, notes, text, information, music, and videos ("Member Content").
...(some other stuff here)
You retain all ownership rights in your Member Content. However, by posting Content to the Web site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Multiply (and its successors) an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, assignable, royalty free, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, distribute and to prepare derivative works of such Content in connection with the Website and the Service, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
The terms states that once you use their service, they can do whatever they want with it because you gave them permission to. What Facebook failed to mention in their TOS which Multiply emphasized is that You retain all ownership rights in your Member Content.
Having read all that, should I be worried? No. I really don't care if they use it for any purpose they want. I want my 15 minutes of fame. Besides, I have nothing to worry about. Like as if I'm uploading anything scandalous or have been doing anything scandalous that others might have uploaded that could possibly ruin my future career if in case I become famous.
So they can distribute it, big deal. I value my privacy only to some extent. And whatever I value, I keep to myself. I want to live in a glass house and that doesn't leave much room for privacy now does it, so whatevs.
Anything posted on the internet, whichever service used, becomes public property. If I don't want my pictures seen then I won't post it. Plain and simple.
If you want to read more TOS comparisons between websites click here.
Also, you may want to watch this flash video here.
From the Facebook TOS:
You are solely responsible for the User Content that you Post on or through the Facebook Service. 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. You represent and warrant that you have all rights and permissions to grant the foregoing licenses.From the Multiply TOS:
You are solely responsible for the content that you publish or display (hereinafter "Post") on the Multiply.com website, or transmit to other Multiply Members, including but not limited to photos, profiles, messages, notes, text, information, music, and videos ("Member Content")....(some other stuff here)
You retain all ownership rights in your Member Content. However, by posting Content to the Web site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Multiply (and its successors) an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, assignable, royalty free, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, distribute and to prepare derivative works of such Content in connection with the Website and the Service, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
The terms states that once you use their service, they can do whatever they want with it because you gave them permission to. What Facebook failed to mention in their TOS which Multiply emphasized is that You retain all ownership rights in your Member Content.
Having read all that, should I be worried? No. I really don't care if they use it for any purpose they want. I want my 15 minutes of fame. Besides, I have nothing to worry about. Like as if I'm uploading anything scandalous or have been doing anything scandalous that others might have uploaded that could possibly ruin my future career if in case I become famous.
So they can distribute it, big deal. I value my privacy only to some extent. And whatever I value, I keep to myself. I want to live in a glass house and that doesn't leave much room for privacy now does it, so whatevs.
Anything posted on the internet, whichever service used, becomes public property. If I don't want my pictures seen then I won't post it. Plain and simple.
If you want to read more TOS comparisons between websites click here.
Also, you may want to watch this flash video here.
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