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Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos

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Re: Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos

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Post by johncoogan »

nwh wrote: post #49
aptwebapps wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you are correct. The old TOS did not allow them to resell your pics. Also note they are saying your private pics will now be fair game as well. You are correct that the old TOS seems pretty standard, but these changes are not trivial.

This is exactly why TOS should show a diff or revision history. Failing that, there really ought to be an external website documenting changes.

I believe TOS-DR is working on it... http://tos-dr.info/

Seems like it hasn't been updated in a while though...

Re: Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos

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Post by vidarh »

nwh wrote: post #14
krichman wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

UIAM you can't publish an advertisement with someone in it until they sign a model release form.

You supposedly read and agreed to the TOS, aren't they effectively giving your permission?

The person reading and agreeing to the TOS is not necessarily the same person as the one(s) appearing in the photos. It is the latter that needs to sign a model release.

Re: Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos

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Post by dr_faustus »

Dont worry! The founders of instagram where afraid of this as well and they devised a poison pill before they sold out! All you images have been made useless for any commercial use by the application of shitty "lets make it look like a polaroid left in the sun for 30 years"-filters...

Re: Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos

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Post by chandru89new »

sgdesign wrote: post #4

I'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 pho…

well i sure hope it's Flickr again!

Re: Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos

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Post by batiudrami »

jmathai wrote: post #38
batiudrami wrote: post #5

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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.

Not sure I agree with this. I think the social connections on Instagram are much weaker then on Facebook (hence my comparison). The moment Instagram appears not to be in fashion anymore people can leave without giving up much. Granted, I'm not an Instagram user so I could be entirely wrong but the network effects of Instagram don't seem to be strong enough to push their users around too much.

Oh, I think you're right there. My point is that the people who use it won't care about this issue - this isn't the thing that's going to drive them away.

It's far more likely to be something less damaging but more obvious to users, like in-feed advertising.

Re: Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos

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Post by TeeWEE »

spacestation wrote: post #59

deleting your account is futile, photographs will still remain on their AWS account. after deleting one of my accounts, I was suspicious that they would still keep the photographs. So to test this, I made a dummy account named after where i live; nikkojapan http://instagram.com/nikkojapan/ i made a quick pointless photograph just to upload http://instagram.com/p/K8bx_ZB59K/ Here is the link that still exists to the p…

Isn't that against their privacy policy?

Re: Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos

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Post by neilk »

nwh wrote: post #49
aptwebapps wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you are correct. The old TOS did not allow them to resell your pics. Also note they are saying your private pics will now be fair game as well. You are correct that the old TOS seems pretty standard, but these changes are not trivial.

This is exactly why TOS should show a diff or revision history. Failing that, there really ought to be an external website documenting changes.

tosback.com from the EFF used to do this, but it was taken offline a few days ago. I think someone took a look at it after the Facebook user agreement thing and either wanted to upgrade it or noticed some problems.
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