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Can you take posts from a page from facebook, and use as main content in a book?

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quincy

Senior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
What is the name of your state, Nana Atoo?

Facebook content belongs to the person who created the content (and is licensed to Facebook). Unless you created the content, you cannot copy it or publish it elsewhere without authorization from the creator of the content/copyright holder.
 

Nana Atoo

Junior Member
I saw this, on article online..It says otherwise.

Information you share publicly: When you choose to share something with Public (ex: when you select Public from the audience selector), it’s considered public information. If you share something and you don’t see an audience selector or another privacy setting, that information is also public. Learn more about using the audience selector to control who you share with when you post to Facebook.
Stuff other people share: If other people share info about you, even if it’s something you shared with them but did not make public, they can choose to make it public. Also when you comment on other people’s public posts, your comment is public as well.
Posts on Facebook Pages or public groups: Facebook Pages and public groups are public spaces. Anyone who can see the Page or group can see your post or comment. Generally, when you post or comment on a Page or to a public group, a story can be published in News Feed as well as other places on or off Facebook.
 

Zigner

Senior Member, Non-Attorney
Information you share publicly: When you choose to share something with Public (ex: when you select Public from the audience selector), it’s considered public information. If you share something and you don’t see an audience selector or another privacy setting, that information is also public. Learn more about using the audience selector to control who you share with when you post to Facebook.
Stuff other people share: If other people share info about you, even if it’s something you shared with them but did not make public, they can choose to make it public. Also when you comment on other people’s public posts, your comment is public as well.
Posts on Facebook Pages or public groups: Facebook Pages and public groups are public spaces. Anyone who can see the Page or group can see your post or comment. Generally, when you post or comment on a Page or to a public group, a story can be published in News Feed as well as other places on or off Facebook.
That has NOTHING to do with what you are asking about. All that is doing is explaining how the privacy functions work.
(Copying without attribution is a no-no too.)
 

quincy

Senior Member
Information you share publicly: When you choose to share something with Public (ex: when you select Public from the audience selector), it’s considered public information. If you share something and you don’t see an audience selector or another privacy setting, that information is also public. Learn more about using the audience selector to control who you share with when you post to Facebook.
Stuff other people share: If other people share info about you, even if it’s something you shared with them but did not make public, they can choose to make it public. Also when you comment on other people’s public posts, your comment is public as well.
Posts on Facebook Pages or public groups: Facebook Pages and public groups are public spaces. Anyone who can see the Page or group can see your post or comment. Generally, when you post or comment on a Page or to a public group, a story can be published in News Feed as well as other places on or off Facebook.
What is the name of your state?

Online privacy is different than the copyright issues you have asked about in your original post.

There is a lot of material available that can be freely ACCESSED by the public on the internet. Access to the material does not transfer any rights in the material. Most of what you find online is rights-protected material and in order to COPY (distribute, create derivatives, etc) the material, you (generally) will need to acquire permission from the holder of the rights.
 
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