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Instagram Says It 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 youanything 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.” If Instagram users continue to upload photos after January 16, 2013, and subsequently delete their account after the deadline, they may have granted Facebook an irrevocable right to sell those images in perpetuity. There’s no obvious language that says deleting an account terminates Facebook’s rights, EFF’s Opsahl said. Another unusual addition to Instagram’s new policy appears to immunize it from liability, such as class action lawsuits, if it makes supposedly private photos public. The language stresses, twice in the same paragraph, that “we will not be liable for any use or disclosure of content” and “Instagram will not be liable for any use or disclosure of any content you provide.” Yet another addition says “you acknowledge that we may not always identify paid services, sponsored content, or commercial communications as such.” That appears to conflict with the Federal Trade Commission’s guidelines that say advertisements should be listed as advertisements.
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Instagram Says It 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 youanything 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.”

If Instagram users continue to upload photos after January 16, 2013, and subsequently delete their account after the deadline, they may have granted Facebook an irrevocable right to sell those images in perpetuity. There’s no obvious language that says deleting an account terminates Facebook’s rights, EFF’s Opsahl said.

Another unusual addition to Instagram’s new policy appears to immunize it from liability, such as class action lawsuits, if it makes supposedly private photos public. The language stresses, twice in the same paragraph, that “we will not be liable for any use or disclosure of content” and “Instagram will not be liable for any use or disclosure of any content you provide.”

Yet another addition says “you acknowledge that we may not always identify paid services, sponsored content, or commercial communications as such.” That appears to conflict with the Federal Trade Commission’s guidelines that say advertisements should be listed as advertisements.

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    Delete your instagram
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  5. maxatronic reblogged this from cosmicgonzo and added:
    Seriously. The ONLY reason I still have one is to communicate and share pictures with my sister who doesn’t have a...
  6. magicsharks reblogged this from thvnderclap and added:
    Lets be real here, I’m sure Instagram wants to sell all your hipster pictures of coffee and you and your friends making...
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    Everyone stop shitting you’re fucking pants over this, here’s the UPDATED news on instagram: “… You also had deep...
  8. cosmicgonzo reblogged this from whitewingedalbatross and added:
    Yep. This is why I deleted my account. Sorry for the impending hostility: FUCK YOU INSTAGRAM
  9. mssophiedarling reblogged this from wespeakfortheearth and added:
    So bummed that I might have to delete my instagram 😪😓👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
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    I bet this is a master scheme devised by MySpace Tom.
  16. realynn reblogged this from itsokaye and added:
    I don’t have an Instagram, and now I have more of a reason not to. I’M GOING BACK TO MYSPACE
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    So from this update above, I’m understanding that Instagram is saying they won’t directly sell my photos, but they’ll...
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    i don’t have an instagram, but for y’all that do…
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    I seriously wonder how people think the internet works. Do people know that Facebook already claims the rights to all...
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    Sigh.
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    Close out of Instagram. Fucking corporations.