It’s 2015 and what’s old is new again. You may have noticed people posting status updates with a seemingly-legally binding message protecting their photos and profile information from copyright infringement.

The notice is bunk, and recycled bunk at that. A similar hoax circulated in 2012, convincing users to copy and paste the message or risk opening themselves up to privacy violations.

Then, as now, Snopes reports that the claims are erroneous, and moreover address a nonexistent problem: “Facebook isn’t claiming copyright to the personal information, photographs, and other material that their users are posting to the social network.”

When this rumor first circulated a couple years ago, Facebook responded by clarifying that for any content covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos, users grant Facebook a nonexclusive usage license if you post publicly.

The site makes it clear in its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities: “You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings.”

Facebook users can’t alter the terms they agreed to by signing up simply by posting a message — let alone one with no legal bearing.  The current hoax reads like this:

Better safe than sorry is right. Channel 13 News was just talking about this change in Facebook’s privacy policy. Better safe than sorry. As of September 26th , 2015 at 01:16 a.m. Eastern standard time, I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, or posts, both past and future. By this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute). NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement atleast once it will be tactically allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates. DO NOT SHARE. You MUST copy and paste.