Instagram Says It Has the Right to Sell Your Photos to Advertisers: Fair or Foul?
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2012/12/18 20:00:00
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Facebook policy makers really know how to get under people's skin. Acquired by Facebook back in April -- and as its first policy change since the acquisition -- Instagram has recently announced that as of January, it has the right to sell your uploaded photos to advertisers for a profit. Uh, what?
Part of the new Terms of Service, which is effective January 16, 2013, reads "Instagram does not claim ownership of any Content that you post on or through the Service... Instead, you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content that you post on or through the Service, except that you can control who can view certain of your Content and activities on the Service as described in the Service's Privacy Policy..."
Sounds pretty serious to us -- and people are already deactivating their accounts and backing up their photos by the hundreds. Do you think Instagram has the right to sell your uploaded photos to advertisers? Or do you think it's as foul as foul gets?
ABCNEWS.GO.COM reports:
Part of the new Terms of Service, which is effective January 16, 2013, reads "Instagram does not claim ownership of any Content that you post on or through the Service... Instead, you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content that you post on or through the Service, except that you can control who can view certain of your Content and activities on the Service as described in the Service's Privacy Policy..."
Sounds pretty serious to us -- and people are already deactivating their accounts and backing up their photos by the hundreds. Do you think Instagram has the right to sell your uploaded photos to advertisers? Or do you think it's as foul as foul gets?
ABCNEWS.GO.COM reports:
Come January Instagram will have the right to sell your photos, and Instagram users aren't taking the news well.
Read More: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/instagate-instagr...
Top Opinion
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Elaine Magliacane 2012/12/19 00:38:43Foul
+14I have a lot of original art works post on facebook, even sold a couple via people seeing the painting posted there... if this is true... I know a lot of artists that will be pulling their artwork or watermarking it with copyright notices.... stealing is stealing folks.
if someone entrusts you with something, then you sell it, cant they be sued for breach of trust? if the buyer then uses said article, media content in this case, are they not breaching copyright laws by using a persons personal imput? since anything we create either verbaly or artisticaly (photos or drawings or music) is owned exclusively by ourselves, unless we sign contracts saying otherwise its breach of copyright?otherwise photographers wouldnt be able to sell their exclusively obtain/taken images would they? a lot of facebook photographs are of slightly crazy antics which we "share" with others, if someone takes said crazy antics picture adds a deflametry remark or caption sugesting the person or persons are acting as the added caption sugests, can they be sued for liable?
Your only control: except that you can control who can view certain of your Content and activities on the Service as described in the Service's Privacy Policy..."
This is very different than pirating music and movies/tv. Photos are very personal and private, unlike movies which are not at all private or personal unless of course it's a sex tape or home movie, but most of the time those are leaked by the people in them and people don't pirate home movies unless they're creepy.
about generously sharing any and all profits and royalties with their posters.