{"id":7813,"date":"2012-03-23T11:26:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T18:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=7813"},"modified":"2012-03-23T11:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T18:26:51","slug":"one-more-reason-to-avoid-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/one-more-reason-to-avoid-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"One more reason to avoid Facebook."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Facebook is trying to expand its trademark rights over the word &#8220;book&#8221; by adding the claim to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fbsitegovernance?sk=app_4949752878\" target=\"_blank\">newly revised version<\/a> of its &#8220;Statement of Rights and Responsibilities,&#8221; the agreement all users implicitly consent to by using or accessing Facebook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The newly revised paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You will not use our copyrights or trademarks (including Facebook, the Facebook and F Logos, FB, Face, Poke, Book and Wall), or any confusingly similar marks, except as expressly permitted by our Brand Usage Guidelines or with our prior written permission.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, Facebook needs to go away before it asserts trademark on common words. At least more people should avoid Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica reports: Facebook is trying to expand its trademark rights over the word &#8220;book&#8221; by adding the claim to a newly revised version of its &#8220;Statement of Rights and Responsibilities,&#8221; the agreement all users implicitly consent to by using or accessing Facebook. The newly revised paragraph: &#8220;You will not use our copyrights or trademarks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/one-more-reason-to-avoid-facebook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One more reason to avoid Facebook.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[1076,936,3019],"class_list":["post-7813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-rants","tag-facebook","tag-tech","tag-trademark"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-221","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}