On 24/03/2012 1:11 PM, notbob wrote:
> If there was ever any doubt what a corrupt duplicitous company
> Facebook is, get this. If you sign up for Facebook, or they renew
> their Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and require re
> signing/agreeing, you are agreeing to a new condition acknowledging
> facebook owns the copyright to the term, "book", particularly if used
> as a suffix:.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7j94c9e
>
> This means they can conceivably sue yer ass if you use the term
> cookbook, specially if you use it on Facebook. Anyone who doubts
> Facebook wants to own yer ass lock, stock, and barrel, is being
> hopelessly naive.
>
> nb
>
Facebook cannot copyright a common term such as the word "book".
"Facebook", a made up word they may possibly be able to copyright,
especially as there was no such definition prior to their use of the
term "facebook" but to the term "book" they cannot apply copyright.
Facebook cannot apply copyright to the term "cookbook", given that it
has been in common use for centuries. They may like to document it as
such but it wouldn't hold in a court of law.

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Krypsis