Week 6 Tutespark

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The tutespark this week raised a question that had never occoured to me before today, which is slightly disturbing considering the amount of personal information, writing, images and ideas that I have published online without a second thought.
When I put something online, who owns it? Is it still mine, even if I post it on a website owned by someone else?
So, Who owns the content you put on the internet on various sites?

For me the most content I publish, is through Facebook. And it wasn’t hard to find out my rights about the content I publish.

Facebook privacy section told me that:
"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."

So thankfully, I still own everything I publish. I have the rights to who can see it, who can use it and therefore am still in control of my property.
But what about the information on this blog?
Quoted directly from the privacy section of blogger

" You acknowledge that Google owns all right, title and interest in and to the Service, including all intellectual property rights."


I trawled through various other sites, flicker, Myspace etc and thankfully I found they were all much the same. We have rights to what we publish. But this has certainly made me more aware of what I publish and how important it is to view the terms, conditions and privacy rights on any of these websites to ensure my information remains mine.