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(CNN) -- Under fire from tens of thousands of users, the social networking site Facebook said early Wednesday it is reverting to its old policy on user information -- for now.
The site posted a brief message on users' home pages that said it was returning to its previous "Terms of Use" policy "while we resolve the issues that people have raised."
The "Terms of Use" is the legalese tacked on to the bottom of most Web sites that details what the site's owners can do with the information that users provide.
Facebook, the Web's most popular social networking site, has been caught in a content-rights battle after revealing earlier this month that it was granting itself permanent rights to users' photos, wall posts and other information even after a user closed an account.
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I'm actually quite glad and impressed by the results of this. I think it was an incredibly underhanded maneuver by Facebook to alter their Terms & Conditions like that. It's good to see that people still have some amount of power. Stuff like this is actually the reason that I don't ever enter any sort of online writing/art submission contest because regardless of whether you win or lose they get the rights to your stuff.