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Re: How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account

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Post by antiterra »

dfxm12 wrote: post #27
Pelayo wrote: post #21

Does anyone what the legal implications are if someone takes a picture of my baby and Instagram sells it to somebody for an ad? Would they need some sort of release? Because I can delete my own photos but what what happens with other people's?

There are none . They probably wouldn't . You can certainly try and fight it though! Food for thought: http://photorights.org/faq/is-it-legal-to-take-photos-of-peo...

How can you say there are none when the very link you provide mentions a release can be required for commercial use? You cannot imply that another person endorses your product or service without permission, and I've never seen an exclusion for babies. One may exist, but that FAQ doesn't say anything about it.

Re: How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account

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Post by stevesearer »

pseut wrote: post #55
stevesearer wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. Instagram is simply going to use interesting photos of places and items to help market those places. Someone you follow tagged a photo of a latte at a new coffee shop in town? Well, now that photo might show up as a sponsored post in the same way Facebook likes generate sponsored posts. I generally like seeing the photos of the people I am subscribed to, so seeing them attached to a location or product ad do…

You might feel differently if you were a professional photographer or a celebrity (even a minor local one). I don't use instagram, and I'm not sure if the change would cause me to leave if I did use instagram. But I'm not going to start using it, because I expect that anyone who values their pictures is going to leave, so it will suck.

Most of the people I follow on instagram are family and friends. They take pictures of their families doing stuff I'm interested in knowing about like going out to eat, gathering for holidays, hiking, or whatever. They use IG as an easier and more visually pleasing way to keep in touch and share moments of their lives.

So while there are a number of people that use the free service to promote their professional work or celebrity selves, it seems like the vast majority of IG users are in the same boat as me and just don't care about the TOS change.

Re: How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account

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Post by spangborn »

webwright wrote: post #68
imgabe wrote: post #50

For those of you who don't think this is a big deal. Instagram is explicitly stating that they're going to sell the use of your pictures to third parties. They're also going to start showing ads in their news stream. I know the pictures are of too low quality to be plastered on a billboard. That's not the point. What I expect they want to happen is something like this: I post a picture of me drinking a Coke to Instag…

There are tons of stock photography models who live with this risk for a bit of compensation. So they make (say) $100 to be in a photo and have a 0.01% chance of being in an ad they find objectionable. I get a free/fun app instead of $100. Instead of a .01% chance, I have a .00000001% of appearing in an objectionable ad (my photos just aren't as good as pros, and I'm just not that pretty). Add to that-- if this happe…

Most stock photography companies require that models sign a release to prevent legal problems from arising due to the photo.

In this case, it presents a problem if you photograph someone and Instagram sells that photo without a release. Instagram or the third-party that buys the photo could be liable as a result.

I'm surprised that Instagram's lawyers didn't consider this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_release

Re: How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account

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Post by danabramov »

nmcfarl wrote: post #29
avree wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because the resolution shift happens client side, before the photo is transmitted to their servers. They couldn't have the full res version stored elsewhere. That's how we know.

How do we know the resolution shift happens client side? I did a quick google and found nothing.

Because the uploading is damn fast.

Re: How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account

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Post by baar »

siglesias wrote: post #23

Can somebody explain to me what the big deal is about Instagram and these new terms of service? I can't fathom that anything but 1% of 1% of photos taken there are good enough to be used commercially, and if folks are so afraid that their pictures of Starbucks lattes will be used in some kind of marketing campaign (in which case they should actually be flattered), what exactly is stopping users from removing location…

Q: Are you really this stupid?

Re: How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account

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Post by baar »

stevesearer wrote: post #112
pseut wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might feel differently if you were a professional photographer or a celebrity (even a minor local one). I don't use instagram, and I'm not sure if the change would cause me to leave if I did use instagram. But I'm not going to start using it, because I expect that anyone who values their pictures is going to leave, so it will suck.

Most of the people I follow on instagram are family and friends. They take pictures of their families doing stuff I'm interested in knowing about like going out to eat, gathering for holidays, hiking, or whatever. They use IG as an easier and more visually pleasing way to keep in touch and share moments of their lives. So while there are a number of people that use the free service to promote their professional work…

"Most of the people I follow on instagram are family and friends. "

Look up "confirmation bias", "selection bias" and a few other biases. You're welcome.

Re: How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account

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Post by stevesearer »

baar wrote: post #116
stevesearer wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the people I follow on instagram are family and friends. They take pictures of their families doing stuff I'm interested in knowing about like going out to eat, gathering for holidays, hiking, or whatever. They use IG as an easier and more visually pleasing way to keep in touch and share moments of their lives. So while there are a number of people that use the free service to promote their professional work…

"Most of the people I follow on instagram are family and friends. " Look up "confirmation bias", "selection bias" and a few other biases. You're welcome.

I think the fact that I was giving a personal opinion made it pretty clear that I was sharing a biased point of view. My point is that I personally disagree with pseut's point of view that "once professional photographers and celebs leave instagram, the service will be worthless".

Do you believe that to be the case?

Re: How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account

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Post by fusiongyro »

imgabe wrote: post #50

For those of you who don't think this is a big deal. Instagram is explicitly stating that they're going to sell the use of your pictures to third parties. They're also going to start showing ads in their news stream. I know the pictures are of too low quality to be plastered on a billboard. That's not the point. What I expect they want to happen is something like this: I post a picture of me drinking a Coke to Instag…

"Our intention in updating the terms was to communicate that we’d like to experiment with innovative advertising that feels appropriate on Instagram. Instead it was interpreted by many that we were going to sell your photos to others without any compensation. This is not true and it is our mistake that this language is confusing. To be clear: it is not our intention to sell your photos."

-- http://blog.instagram.com/post/38252135408/thank-you-and-wer...

Re: How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account

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Post by mseebach »

ceejayoz wrote: post #94
mseebach wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Deleting your account certainly implies that you don't accept the new TOS.

Ah, but the TOS states using the site means you accept it. You have to use the site to delete your account.

The new TOS doesn't come into effect until one month from now.
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