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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAttention Instagram users: Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos
Instagram said today that it has the perpetual right to sell users' photographs without payment or notification, a dramatic policy shift that quickly sparked a public outcry.
The new intellectual property policy, which takes effect on January 16, comes three months after Facebook completed its acquisition of the popular photo-sharing site. Unless Instagram users delete their accounts before the January deadline, they cannot opt out.
Under the new policy, Facebook claims the perpetual right to license all public Instagram photos to companies or any other organization, including for advertising purposes, which would effectively transform the Web site into the world's largest stock photo agency. One irked Twitter user quipped that "Instagram is now the new iStockPhoto, except they won't have to pay you anything to use your images."
That means that a hotel in Hawaii, for instance, could write a check to Facebook to license photos taken at its resort and use them on its Web site, in TV ads, in glossy brochures, and so on -- without paying any money to the Instagram user who took the photo. The language would include not only photos of picturesque sunsets on Waikiki, but also images of young children frolicking on the beach, a result that parents might not expect, and which could trigger state privacy laws.
more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos/
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Panasonic
(2,921 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)If you agree to their TOS, it's a done deal. You have transferred all rights. They can do what they like with your photo.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Part, your vacation photos should not be fair game to capitalize on as a corporation sees fit.
Especially family photographs.
Social media has become a very ugly advertising plot.
RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)hipsters are going to see a lot of other hipsters in target advertising on the web.
Journeyman
(15,050 posts)srican69
(1,426 posts)as Ive never used their stupid service
justice1
(795 posts)Heywood J
(2,515 posts)Someone saw a hidden asset that they figured was worth a billion.
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