Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos
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#2Wow. Wonder if their users will be bothered to care
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#3Unlike Facebook, I don't think Instagram can afford these antics.
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#4I'm starting to realize that Instagram is not the service I thought it was. I initially thought it was Flickr with social features, but more and more it's turning into Facebook with photos.
There is zero content discoveries features, so you have no way to get new followers or find new people to follow. And the top posters are all teenage pop stars that I've never even heard about who post completely uninteresting photos.
The more Instagram turns into Facebook, the more this opens up a spot for another company to build an actual social network around photos. Whether this will be 500px, Flickr (again), or somebody else entirely, I don't know.
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#5Unlike Facebook, I don't think Instagram can afford these antics.
Instagram's target market doesn't care. These aren't professional photographers, or even amateur ones like flickr, they're teens and 20-somethings with camera phones who want to be able to take and share cool photos with their friends.
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#6Unlike Facebook, I don't think Instagram can afford these antics.
Instagram's target market doesn't care. These aren't professional photographers, or even amateur ones like flickr, they're teens and 20-somethings with camera phones who want to be able to take and share cool photos with their friends.
I bet celebrities will care when their picture unknowingly appears in some ad.
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#7So, how big is the target market for over saturated photos of someone's dinner?
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#8It doesn't matter who the target market is. This can create a precedence, and make other "social" enterprises greedier. While I understand a contract can specify almost anything and there's always "if you don't like it, don't use it" way of looking at this, but there should be a basic sense of decency among all that claim to be serving the wider public.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Instagram's target market doesn't care. These aren't professional photographers, or even amateur ones like flickr, they're teens and 20-somethings with camera phones who want to be able to take and share cool photos with their friends.
I bet celebrities will care when their picture unknowingly appears in some ad.
Or on TMZ.com...
(Put another way: the right of publicity will limit commercial use of Instagram photos, at least in the states that recognize it. But TMZ is editorial use, not commercial use.)
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#10Wait don't we already do this and accuse proponents of SOPA etc. of curbing our freedom under the excuse of piracy?