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In November 2021, a copypasta post claiming that a new Facebook/Meta rule allows Facebook (lately renamed Meta) to use members' photographs without their permission circulated widely on that platform. The post included a block of legalese citing supposed Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) statutes that allow users to impose a Reservation of Rights preventing Facebook and Meta from using or distributing such materials: This was yet another variation of a familiar Facebook copypasta text, which we identified as false in June 2012. Learn more: What Is Copypasta? We rate the newer variation false as well, given that it is simply a slight rewrite of the older version and promulgates the same misinformation. Facebook (Meta) has not instituted or announced any new rule that changes the conditions under which it may use members' content. In its current (as of Nov. 15, 2021) Terms of Service statement, Facebook (Meta) notes that: That same terms of service statement includes two important (though not new) declarations all users need be aware of. Essentially, although users own the intellectual property rights to the content they create and share, when they agree to the company's terms of service by using the service, and depending on their selection of privacy settings for their account, they also grant Facebook (Meta) a license to do certain things with that content: As noted by an attorney and social media expert in a 2012 ABC News report we quoted in our previous coverage, posting a boilerplate legal notice on one's Facebook page is useless: Have you seen other variations of this claim? Let us know.
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