p2pnet news view | Advertising:- While I was having a look at Harvard’s Joel Tenenbaum v the RIAA Facebook page, “Hello Jon, do you speak English (UK)?” – Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg (right) asked me.

Well, he runs Facebook, doesn’t he? So it’d be him asking, wouldn’t it?

Do I!? Wow!!!

“Help translate Facebook into English (UK) so that it can be used by people all over the world, in all languages,” he says.

“Click on the Translate Facebook button to add the Translations application, developed by Facebook, so that you can be part of the community of translators.”

What an opportunity!!!

But wait. This seems vaguely familiar.

Got it!

“We thought it’d be cool,” p2pnet recently quoted Javier Olivan, international manager at Facebook, as saying, going on, “Our goal would be to hopefully have one day everybody on the planet on Facebook.”

And one of the ways it hopes to do that is to get users to do all the translating.

For free.

Valentin Macias, 29, a Californian who teaches English in Seoul, South Korea, has volunteered in the past to translate for the Wikipedia, but said he won’t do it for Facebook, said the Associated Press, going on >>>

“(Wikipedia is) an altruistic, charitable, information-sharing, donation-supported cause,” Macias told The Associated Press in a Facebook message.

“Facebook is not. Therefore, people should not be tricked into donating their time and energy to a multimillion-dollar company so that the company can make millions more – at least not without some type of compensation.”

Nonetheless, users such as Murat Odabasi of London, “are spending hours each day translating Facebook,” said the story.

Facebook in Dutch is Faceboek, in French, Facelivre, and in Commercialese, $$$$$$$$, p2pnet added.

So what, exactly, are you handing over to Facebook when it “allows” you to do its translations for free?

Here’s what it says >>>

In consideration of Facebook’s permitting you to participate in the Project and the benefits to the Facebook user community of which you are a member, you acknowledge and agree that any Submissions that you provide to Facebook will be owned by Facebook. Accordingly, you irrevocably assign to Facebook all right, title and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in and to all Submissions, and Facebook is entitled to the unrestricted use and dissemination of these Submissions for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment, consent or monetary or other tangible compensation to you. To the extent that the foregoing assignment is or becomes invalid or unenforceable to any degree or for any reason, you grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, exclusive, fully-paid-up, royalty-free, worldwide right and license, with the right to sublicense, to use, reproduce, display, perform, create derivative works of, distribute and otherwise exploit the Submissions in any manner.

Gee, Mark, thanks. But I’ll pass.

Jon Newton – p2pnet

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