That argument would be far more (read: "at all") compelling if they weren't keeping the full-rez, EXIF'ed images. At that point, they're de facto acting as a backup service, and obscuring my access to my content [0] in the form in which it was originally submitted.
Your argument is the very thing I was referring to with the last sentence in my previous post. "They can do what they want with it, and you're wrong for thinking otherwise" is, besides being factually void, the kind of rationalization that lets FB jerk its users around like this.
[0] Yes, in fact, it is my content; I granted them a specifically constrained license, allowing them to use that content, in order to serve my and others' use of it. That's all. There is nothing whatsoever about not having to give back exactly what I uploaded, under any circumstance.
From the Fine ToS [1]:
> 2. Sharing Your Content and Information
You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:
For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
Nothing in that snippet, or anything else in the ToS grants them the right only to give back "lesser" versions of the content I uploaded. To suggest otherwise is tantamount to saying that, should I use the tool they provide to download all of my content, I have to suck it up that it will have all vowels elided.
“People own and have control over all info they put into Facebook and “Download Your Information” enables people to take stuff with them,”
“At a high level we’ve built two different things, Facebook Connect — which is our real effort to bring our sites to other sites, and “Download Your Information” where you can download your information and upload it to another site. Stuff that you put into the site, you should be able to take out.”
Your argument is the very thing I was referring to with the last sentence in my previous post. "They can do what they want with it, and you're wrong for thinking otherwise" is, besides being factually void, the kind of rationalization that lets FB jerk its users around like this.
[0] Yes, in fact, it is my content; I granted them a specifically constrained license, allowing them to use that content, in order to serve my and others' use of it. That's all. There is nothing whatsoever about not having to give back exactly what I uploaded, under any circumstance.
From the Fine ToS [1]:
> 2. Sharing Your Content and Information
You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:
For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
Nothing in that snippet, or anything else in the ToS grants them the right only to give back "lesser" versions of the content I uploaded. To suggest otherwise is tantamount to saying that, should I use the tool they provide to download all of my content, I have to suck it up that it will have all vowels elided.
[1] https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms