Monday 1 November 2010

Tumblr as student visual portfolio system - terms of service implications

Tumblr as student portfolio system

The service agreement

http://www.tumblr.com/terms_of_service

-       Back up

You are strongly urged to take measures to preserve copies of any data, material, content or information you post or upload on the Site. You are solely responsible for creating back-ups of your Subscriber Content.”

This is a fairly standard statement, but all students wishing to use the site will need to understand that they and not LMJU or Tumblr, are responsible for backing up content. How do students do this. I’m still looking into this, there does seem to be download tools out there, but how buggy these are would take some work.

-       Data is not shared with third parties – but in the event of a buy-out tumblr would pass on the user data http://www.tumblr.com/privacy_policy

-       Copyright infringement  by students – Students accounts could be removed if a claim of use of copyright infringement is brought against them. Students should be aware of using copyrighted materials on their site

-       Students ownership of uploaded content – tumblr makes no claim over these materials “You own and control what you share on Tumblr”

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