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The latest silly Facebook panic - this time it's Paypal
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I don't suppose anyone on POL is naive enough - I won't say stupid enough (although you know that's what I really mean) - to believe the latest twaddle on Facebook and on the internet generally about Paypal and its purported "rights grab", but someone contacted me to warn me there might be a problem, and I looked into it. It didn't take long to discover the truth - all I had to do was read: there's a novelty for some....
Anyway: the scare is that Paypal is changing their terms and conditions, which indeed they are, included in which - it is claimed - is a provision that if you deal with them to expedite payments from your website, they will claim ownership of your copyright on anything you sell.
Even on the face of it, this is completely stupid - but as even Jan Szymczuk, he of the BBC painting challenge, has fallen for it it seems some people really do believe every damn' fool thing they read. To start with, even without visiting the Paypal terms and conditions as revised, you can see that were they to do this, no one would ever deal with them again: they could drive themselves out of business in a matter of weeks (which makes the story and its irresponsible spread highly damaging to the company, of course).
But when you do trouble to actually do a bit of work, and look at those terms and conditions, you find that Paypal is merely protecting the copyright of its own website; the key words are "content that is provided" by artists, writers, or others to Facebook: we are not providing them with content by using them as our shopping cart. You really don't need to be an expert in copyright law to grasp this, but as a matter of sober fact, all of us who sell artwork online do need to have at least a basic grip on the law relating to what we do.
The trouble with the internet, for all its advantages, is that total, utter, misleading twaddle can be spread in a matter of seconds, and once people see it on a website they assume it must be true. Well, this isn't. It wasn't true when a similar allegation was made about Facebook itself, it's not true of Paypal, and I shall continue to use their services on my website: you do the same, and if they grab your copyright you can sue ME if you like ....
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everyone wants a piece of the pie
we give our e mail address using paypal .so you browser ((Hotmail say) see,s you using money transfer .a eyes The %5 is it ??and thinks lets get on to this good thing it money for old rope . especially when this guy is not using our apps and buying them ,shall we suggest our paid for email ,,,,,,
,,next another transferring site e mails you..... lets get into this money pit ,,,
then facebook sales site say hello hello .theres a load of money to be made here ,,, looks like we will be paying for our mail accounts soon
we have have to use our isp providers mail accounts only
they will get in you pockets one way or another ....