{"292011":{"#nid":"292011","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Do You Read Terms of Service? Maybe You Should","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EMaintaining privacy online is a constant concern for users, but a related issue is the difficulty users face in understanding what content they give away when signing up for free online services. Do people even bother reading the Terms of Service before clicking \u201cagree\u201d?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EA Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~gte115v\/wip0483-fieslerSC.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eresearch study on TOSs\u003C\/a\u003E for popular online services shows that when posting content to the likes of LinkedIn, craigslist or IMDB, users may be giving away more than they think, including the right to take back the data once it is made available. Also, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest (as well as the aforementioned) do not pay users for the content published on their platforms.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0022With so many people posting everything from status updates to digital art online, intellectual property rights are increasingly important to the end user,\u201d says Casey Fiesler, a Ph.D. Candidate in Human-Centered Computing and lead researcher. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EThe study included the 30 most-trafficked online social media sites and fan creation communities and found that a majority of them required users to grant the websites nonexclusive, worldwide and royalty-free use of content. Researchers identified 11 licenses and 15 rights users grant companies when posting content. One top ranking fan fiction site, Asianfanfics.com, has a TOS that lets the company essentially do anything they want to with user content without those users\u2019 knowledge or future consent. Remix 64, a top 5 site for audio, doesn\u2019t even have a TOS.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0022Depending on where you upload your content, you are giving away radically different rights,\u201d says Amy Bruckman, co-investigator and professor in the School of Interactive Computing. \u201cWe believe it should be simpler for users to read terms of service.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EResearchers found that the average reading level for the combined TOSs was that of a second-year college student and the average number of words for the TOSs was 3,851. Reading all the Terms of Service in one sitting (all 111,698 words) would take about 8 hours, according to the study.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EThe research will be presented at CHI 2014, the premier conference on human-computer interaction, April 26 - May 1 in Toronto.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA Georgia Tech study included the 30 most-trafficked online social media sites and fan creation communities and found that a majority of them required users to grant the websites nonexclusive, worldwide and royalty-free use of content. Researchers identified 11 licenses and 15 rights users grant companies when posting content.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A Georgia Tech study included the 30 most-trafficked online social media sites and fan creation communities and found that a majority of them required users to grant the websites nonexclusive, worldwide and royalty-free use of content."}],"uid":"27592","created_gmt":"2014-04-21 12:18:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:15","author":"Joshua Preston","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"292021":{"id":"292021","type":"image","title":"INFOGRAPHIC: Do You Read Terms of Service? 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