they don't claim ownership
they simply claim inalienable rights to publish and/or edit your work as they see fit. It in no way lessens your ownership, and you certainly don't relinquish ownership.
As the creator of a work, you hold the original copyright. They, under the new shitty TOS, will claim the right to use it, royalty free, as they see fit. They could not, for example, turn around and tell you to remove your image from any site other than facebook, because you have the copyright, they do not. And they cannot prevent you earning money from your work.
What it does do, is stop you claiming any money from them, should they earn money off of your work.
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Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:00,
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Apologies, I meant you relinquish *exclusive* ownership (to profit from etc).
Btw according to CNN the new rules don't apply to apps: "Facebook's terms of service do say that 'User Content and Applications/Connect Sites' are exempt from its claims on content ownership."
edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/17/facebook.terms.service/index.html
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thanks for the link,
it clarifies a lot of the mess.
Although you do still maintain exclusive ownership. Nothing is relinquished whatsoever. FB do not in any way own your work or the copyright to it, they merely retain a license to it. It's no different than if you placed some photos on a stock image site, and someone bought a license to use them in a commercial endeavour. The only difference is that you are not selling the license, you are giving it to FB in order to be allwoed to use FB.
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Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:42,
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