{"id":5821,"date":"2015-02-10T08:14:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T13:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2015-02-09T12:51:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:51:41","slug":"terms-and-conditions-aka-why-i-left-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/02\/10\/terms-and-conditions-aka-why-i-left-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Terms and Conditions aka why I left Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello!\u00a0 How are you?\u00a0 Me, I’m keepin’ on and experiencing yet another bleed from my professional life into my personal one.\u00a0 This semester has sent me quite a few more requests for copyright guidance than last semester.\u00a0 Sometimes the answers to these questions actually involve contract law, which is a different beast entirely – as any electronic resources librarian can tell you.\u00a0 What companies put in their contracts can make allowances for more or less use than copyright law allows.<\/p>\n

And, I hear you saying, yeah, so what.\u00a0 How is this a personal issue?\u00a0 Our memberships, customer accounts, use of software and apps are all regulated by terms and conditions or EULAs (End User License Agreements) that are meant to govern our uses and interactions (beyond just copyright).\u00a0 Some companies are putting crazy things in their EULAs now a days.\u00a0 Example one:\u00a0\u00a0 Palmer vs. Kleargear<\/a>, where-in Company A declares that they can hold you financially liable and take various actions against you, like ruining your credit, if you tell your friend they suck.\u00a0 That was an extremely simplistic summary but the truth is no less scary.\u00a0 Example two:\u00a0 EULAs that explain that your download of a free media player means your agreement that their constituent will take over all your browser programs and change the settings for your search and home pages (you know who you are!).<\/p>\n

Given these happenings, I have been trying to be more mindful of what I am actually agreeing to by using websites and services.\u00a0 I had a read of Facebook’s terms and conditions (that were supposedly updated over the holidays), and decided that what they said was not for me.\u00a0 I couldn’t agree, and since using the service equated agreement, I have deleted myself from Facebook.\u00a0 I’ll miss all the friend creeping, but bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello!\u00a0 How are you?\u00a0 Me, I’m keepin’ on and experiencing yet another bleed from my professional life into my personal one.\u00a0 This semester has sent me quite a few more requests for copyright guidance than last semester.\u00a0 Sometimes the answers to these questions actually involve contract law, which is a different beast entirely – as… Continue reading Terms and Conditions aka why I left Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[209,76,178],"class_list":["post-5821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-online","tag-privacy","tag-ranting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4225,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/07\/30\/congressional-copyright-hearings\/","url_meta":{"origin":5821,"position":0},"title":"Congressional Copyright Hearings","author":"leems","date":"July 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Congress is finally reviewing copyright as it stands in the USA.\u00a0 But, according to the latest news, they are not including creators in the process.\u00a0 Oh, they're involving copyright holders, yes.\u00a0 The ginormous companies that have inherited, bought, or had signed over the copyright to thousands upon thousands of creative\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7310,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/07\/25\/a-little-obsession-with-author-voices\/","url_meta":{"origin":5821,"position":1},"title":"a little obsession with author voices","author":"leems","date":"July 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Before copyright law there were poets and playwrights who bemoaned the theft of their work and words by others while at the same time they stole words to build their poems and plays.\u00a0 Plagiarism was rampant, though, the act of literary theft was only just termed plagiarism, by one poet's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"copyrightfistfight","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/copyrightfistfight-491x600.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7150,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/05\/15\/ramblings-on-copyright\/","url_meta":{"origin":5821,"position":2},"title":"ramblings on copyright","author":"leems","date":"May 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"In addition to my developing obsession with finding author voices relating to developments in copyright law, I have been searching every resource I can find to figure out interesting ways of communicating to students and faculty on campus about copyright.\u00a0 The most hilarious resource might be the most obvious:\u00a0 the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"IMG_20160312_121217","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160312_121217-242x400.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7399,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/10\/24\/what-if-copyright-did-actually-balance-the-needs-of-the-creator-and-the-user\/","url_meta":{"origin":5821,"position":3},"title":"What if copyright did actually balance the needs of the creator and the user?","author":"leems","date":"October 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"An article on Tofugu (Japanese pop culture blog) about Doujinshi Culture has a fascinating description of a copyright system that truly balances the needs of both creator and user:\u00a0 Japan\u2019s Doujinshi Culture Of Creativity Through Theft And The Monster Trying To Destroy It by Rich and Michael Richey \u2022 Art\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6522,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/12\/15\/save-the-date-fair-use-week-2016-february-22-26-2016-fair-use-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":5821,"position":4},"title":"Save the Date! 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