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For those of you that add photos to your facebook and myspace profiles: (Thought you might want to know what they can ‘do’ with your photos)

To the issue of facebook owning your photos, The original wording of 
Facebook stated that you pretty much give them all rights to your work 

“By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically 
grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, 
to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, 
fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, 
copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt 
(in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any 
purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection 
with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works 
of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant 
and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.” 

But they have updated their TOS to include 

“You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you 
choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will 
automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may 
retain archived copies of your User Content. Facebook does not assert 
any ownership over your User Content; rather, as between us and you, 
subject to the rights granted to us in these Terms, you retain full 
ownership of all of your User Content and any intellectual property 
rights or other proprietary rights associated with your User Content.” 

As for MySpace, they make it clear that they don’t want your rights, 
and that the only access to your work they need is so that they can 
display the work on your page. The exceprt of the TOS is here, 

“MySpace.com does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, 
images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or 
any other materials (collectively, “Content”) that you post to the 
MySpace Services. After posting your Content to the MySpace Services, 
you continue to retain all ownership rights in such Content, and you 
continue to have the right to use your Content in any way you choose. 
By displaying or publishing (”posting”) any Content on or through the 
MySpace Services, you hereby grant to MySpace.com a limited license to 
use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and 
distribute such Content solely on and through the MySpace Services.”