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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInstagram 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."
"It's asking people to agree to unspecified future commercial use of their photos," says Kurt Opsahl, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "That makes it challenging for someone to give informed consent to that deal."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos/
onehandle
(51,122 posts)No free service is free.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)You could be walking down the street and see your photo of your kid on a bus as an ad for condoms.
Not cool.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)(at link: gay couple's wedding photo used in anti-gay political ads)
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)klook
(12,160 posts)Had the app on my phone but deleted it. Complete bullshit.