Read the Fine Print - Social media site Terms & Conditions
If you watch South Park, you appreciate the necessity of reading the Ts&Cs (especially for iTunes...all 40 PAGES!). Everyone should read the Ts&Cs, especially for social networking and social media sites.
For example, I recently received an invitation to Talent.me. On the surface, it looks fine. But that key language I do NOT want to see is right there:
License and warrant your submissions: You do not have to submit anything to us, but if you choose to submit something (including any User generated content, ideas, concepts, techniques and data), you must grant, and you actually grant by concluding this Agreement, a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, unlimited, assignable, sublicenseable, fully paid up and royalty free right to us to copy, prepare derivative works of, improve, distribute, publish, remove, retain, add, and use and commercialize, in any way now known or in the future discovered, anything that you submit to us, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or to any third parties.
Now, they probably have a decent app. And certainly other sites I've joined have, if they didn't originally, changed their Terms & Conditions to incorporate aspects of this.
Hopefully, this company, along with others which include similar language, are just CYA-ing. From having worked on a Personal Branding service/ website, we researched this issue extensively and sought to avoid claiming ownership and/or via derivitive works.
Still, be careful out there folks. And READ!
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