As I said on Twitter: Who da thunk after paying $1B for #Instagram that #Facebook would now want to monitize it? Besides "everybody", I mean.
One opinion to the latest news is that if you are going to use a free service you should expect them to be able to make money off of their service (YOU) somehow: http://www.zdnet.com/so-instagram-can-now-sell-your-photos-get-over-it-7000008960/ That article also links to a couple of services that help you to download your items from Instagram if you want to preserve them and then terminate your service with them. I don't use Instagram, so this does not affect me directly, but it is one more (significant) application of downward pressure to stock photography prices (something that seems to be going the way of print newspapers). So for anybody who makes an income off of stock photography this is not good news (any more than Getty's collaboration with Flickr was really good news in that regard). In a larger sense, this highlights the problem inherent in any Terms of Service that can change significantly with little notice to their users. Facebook has a particularly egregious history in this regard so it figures that anything they takeover is going to be afflicted by the same disease. I fear that it is a trend that will only accelerate with other services looking for ways to increase the bottom line. On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Bong Manayon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > http://www.slrlounge.com/instagram-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos > > -- > Bong Manayon > http://bong.manayon.net > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
