- MySpace : users’ ownership but licence to Myspace for distributing etc… unless marked ‘private’ , After will cease distribution as soon as practicable,

“6. Proprietary Rights in Content on MySpace.
6.1 MySpace does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, applications, or any other materials (collectively, “Content”) that you post on or through the MySpace Services. After posting your Content to the MySpace Services, you continue to retain any such rights that you may have in your Content, subject to the limited license herein. By displaying or publishing (“posting”) any Content on or through the MySpace Services, you hereby grant to MySpace a limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on or through the MySpace Services, including without limitation distributing part or all of the MySpace Website in any media formats and through any media channels, except Content marked “private” will not be distributed outside the MySpace Website. This limited license does not grant MySpace the right to sell or otherwise distribute your Content outside of the MySpace Services. After you remove your Content from the MySpace Website we will cease distribution as soon as practicable, and at such time when distribution ceases, the license will terminate. If after we have distributed your Content outside the MySpace Website you change the Content’s privacy setting to “private,” we will cease distribution of such “private” Content outside the MySpace Website as soon as practicable after you make the change.

6.2 The license you grant to MySpace is non-exclusive (meaning you are free to license your Content to anyone else in addition to MySpace), fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning that MySpace is not required to pay you for the use on the MySpace Services of the Content that you post), sublicensable (so that MySpace is able to use its affiliates, subcontractors and other partners such as Internet content delivery networks and wireless carriers to provide the MySpace Services), and worldwide (because the Internet and the MySpace Services are global in reach).

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6.4
…MySpace hereby grants you a limited, revocable, nonsublicensable license to reproduce and display the MySpace Content …”

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– Xanga : Ownership of the content provider + temporary licence , content license ’shall expire either immediately or upon termination of any promotional or marketing activities ongoing at the time’

“CONTENT SUBMITTED TO XANGA.COM
(This section refers to Content that you create)

You retain all ownership rights to your Content. Except for its ownership of the collection of all content on Xanga, as described below, Xanga does not claim ownership of any Content you publish in your area of the Website (�Your Xanga Site�).

When you publish your Content on Xanga, you grant Xanga a temporary license to �rebroadcast� it. ….

By publishing Content on Your Xanga Site you grant Xanga a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, distribute, transmit, publicly perform and publicly display the Content (as well as permit others – including without limitation Xanga�s co-brand, content and syndication partners – to do the same) solely for the following purposes:

* Displaying, distributing and promoting Your Xanga Site
* Promoting and marketing Xanga�s products and services and general operation of the Xanga Service
* Promoting and marketing the products and services of Xanga�s partners and affiliates
* Promoting and marketing products and services related to your Content.

This license exists only for as long as the Content remains published on Your Xanga Site and only for as long you remain a Xanga member, except that you grant Xanga a continuing perpetual license and right to maintain a copy of your Xanga Site and Content for archival purposes. This archival copy is not posted publicly on the Xanga system; it is maintained solely so that Xanga may recover content and restore accounts (in case of errors or system failure) or cooperate with law enforcement in order to make the Xanga service safer. Except for this license for archival use, in the event that you remove the Content from Your Xanga Site or in the event that your membership is terminated, this license shall expire either immediately or upon termination of any promotional or marketing activities ongoing at the time.

COPYRIGHT

Content created by Xanga or its suppliers

All content created by Xanga, its partners, or its suppliers and included on Xanga, such as text, logos, graphics, images, javascript code, HTML code, and other software, is the property of Xanga, Inc. (or its partners or suppliers) and protected by U.S. and international copyright and other intellectual property laws.

Compilations of Content

Notwithstanding the provisions outlined in �Content submitted to Xanga.com� above*, the collection of all Content on this site is a collective work under the U.S. copyright laws and is the exclusive property of Xanga and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. The Content and software on Xanga may be used as a homepage creation or web-surfing resource. Any other use, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, display, or performance, of the Content on Xanga is strictly prohibited.

*Individual Contributors retain all ownership rights to their Content. Xanga does not claim ownership of any Content you publish on Your Xanga Site.”

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- BEBO : no ownership claimed + limited license clearly defines the after contract termination

“Proprietary Rights
Bebo does not claim any ownership rights in any Materials that you submit, post, or display on or through the Bebo Service. ……
you hereby grant to Bebo and its agents and assigns a limited license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Materials solely in connection with the Bebo Service or the promotion thereof.

…
This license will terminate at the time you remove your Materials from the Bebo Service, except that you agree that the license will continue solely with respect to other Members’ continued use of your Materials that are not music or videos (i.e. photos or skins); provided, however if you remove any of the Materials from the Bebo Service, Bebo reserves the right to remove all of your Materials from other Member’s pages. The license does not grant Bebo the right to sell your Materials You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Materials posted by you on or through the Bebo Service or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this section, and (ii) the posting of your Materials on or through the Bebo Service does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person by reason of any Materials posted by you to or through the Bebo Service. The hosting of certain items that you post, such as video, may require your agreement to a separate license agreement or terms of use.

Bebo, Inc. and its affiliates and licensors own and retain all rights in the Bebo Web site and Bebo Service, which contain proprietary and confidential information that is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws, …..
We take your privacy very seriously and collection and use of personal information is governed by our Privacy Policy. Click here to review the Bebo Privacy Policy.

Information collected in connection with your use of the Bebo Service may be processed and stored in the United States, or other countries where Bebo or its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries or service providers maintain facilities. If you live outside the United States and use Bebo, you expressly consent to the transfer to the United States of the personal information you provide Bebo, or such other countries as we may disclose from time to time. Additionally, you agree that we may use your Bebo user name to authenticate you on any service provided by Bebo or its affiliates.”

- TWITTER no ownership claimed + promise that all removed after at anytime

“Copyright (What’s Yours is Yours)

1. We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Twitter service. Your profile and materials uploaded remain yours. You can remove your profile at any time by deleting your account. This will also remove any text and images you have stored in the system.
2. We encourage users to contribute their creations to the public domain or consider progressive licensing terms.
3…….”

All these examples shows how a free service accept little liability, the service take no any liability to maintain and could disappear or be swallow at any time.

Marc is right that defaults are key, but that doesn’t mean that P2P privacy problems are (relatively) unimportant. P2P defaults matter, too. This case just didn’t happen to present that question.

Thank you even more for pointing out that, once again, Facebook and its bunch of nerdy Californians are not the culprit: if they want anything stalky, they probably know where to find far savvier then my party plans. I have yet to come across an issue with Facebook that isn’t instantly resolved by a little honnesty and integreity towards either a close relative a significant other or your boss — and neither deserve anyless, with or without Internet.

What they *are* about to be guilty of, however, is re-shaping social relations by trying to make explicitely coherent the contradictions that Mark Z. indicated in his post. I can imagine only mostly cumbersome standards and little possible generativity out of there — and I’m afraid that the main thing I’m neglecting is Facebook’s employee ethnocentism.