According to the agreements, federal employees can now use social-media tools to post, share and encourage comments on agency-related videos and photos. The agreements clear a path through a thicket of thorny legal concerns associated with standard terms and conditions that work well for individual users but conflict with the laws that govern federal agencies.
For instance, the GSA agreements remove the typical indemnification clauses that would tie agencies to unlimited-liability agreements in violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act. They also resolve issues of jurisdiction and choice of law: The agreements will be governed by U.S. law, and relevant state laws will only come into play in the absence of other federal law. And the agreements recognize the special intellectual property rights associated with government information that resides in the public domain.
Source: Government Computing News
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