Date: 17/06/13
Facebook: Is it under copyright law?
On one hand Copyright is a legal concept giving the creator of an work exclusive rights to it usually for a limited period of time. It gives the copyright holder the right to be credited for work. It also gives the copyright holder the liberty of determining who may adapt the work to other forms, who may perform the work, who may financially benefit from it and other related rights (source: Wikipedia).
On the other hand Copyleft is the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work (source: Wikipedia).
We will now try to look into the copyright perspective of Facebook (FB). The link mentioned below gives us some insights about the usage of copyright in FB.
According to FB, copyright law is prevalent in almost all the countries. This law protects the ownership of authors who are writing books, or making music or making a film or creating an art. However, Copyright is not responsible to protect facts and ideas. Again in the USA Copyright does not protect names, titles, slogans, or short phrases.
So, in the above context the ideas or facts when are being posted by an individual on FB, they doesn't fall under copyright law. As ideas or facts don't fall under the law, so the posts on FB also follow the same trend. Another point which needs to be seen that other users of FB has the right to see other people's posts as there is no such law being made where one's posts will be restricted to others.
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