Facebook News Update 2014: A chain-letter-like message claiming to protect user's copyright of shared photos, status updates and other things on Facebook is making its rounds on the FB community lately. According to Today, the copyright status update is a bogus and posting it in the user's wall won't protect the user's privacy.
Reportedly, the status update has been shared since 2012 and here's the most recent version of it:
"Today, (date) in response to the Facebook guidelines and under articles L.111, 112 and 113 of the code of intellectual property, I declare that my rights are attached to all my personal data, drawings, paintings, photos, texts etc... published on my profile. For commercial use of the foregoing my written consent is required at all times. Those reading this text can copy it and paste it on their Facebook wall. This will allow them to place themselves under the protection of copyright. By this release, I tell Facebook that it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, broadcast, or to take any other action against me on the basis of this profile and/or its contents. The actions mentioned above apply equally to employees, students, agents and/or other staff under the direction of Facebook. The contents of my profile includes private information. The violation of my privacy is punished by the law (UCC 1 1-308 - 308 1 - 103 and the Rome Statute). Facebook is now an open capital entity. All members are invited to post a notice of this kind, or if you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you have not published this statement at least once, you will tacitly allow the use of elements such as your photos as well as the information contained in your profile."
According to the website Inside Facebook, the social networking site "performs 80 trillion checks to ensure that users' content is shown only to the audiences they intended. User input is also valued highly, as Facebook runs 4,000 surveys per day in 27 languages, gauging opinion on privacy settings and changes."
Reportedly, Facebook's privacy team utilizes user feedback in order to enhance privacy experiences.
Eric Goldman, co-director of the High Tech Law Institute at the Santa Clara University School of Law, told TODAY.com. that the said status update is "crap, total nonsense."
"People who are not experienced with clauses like this, it's possible to misread it, and we have seen this over and over again," Goldman said.
