Bong Manayon 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 worlds largest stock photo agency. > >http://www.slrlounge.com/instagram-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos
Neat! Well, for Instagram its neat. Not so much for its end users. But I have to admit I'm impressed with the diabolical game they've played here. TOS agreements like this havent been a problem in the past for a couple of reasons: Firstly, the online service could never be sure the person who uploaded the image was the copyright owner and there are big lawsuits waiting there if they guess wrong. Secondly, aside from copyright they need a model release from any recognizable person in any image they use commercially or license for commercial use. Instagram sidesteps the first issue entirely because the person who shoots the photo is the one who uploads it to the site. And because Instagram encourages "artsy" photography of all kinds of subjects, theres a good chance theyll get a significant number of photographs which dont show a recognizable person and therefore dont require a model release. Yes, it's evil, but impressively so. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
