Instagram said yesterday 18
th December 2012
that it has the perpetual right to sell users' photographs without payment or
notification, a dramatic policy shift that quickly sparked a public outcry.
First
time I scanned through the head I thought I saw
users can now sell their instagram photographs, how greedy ridiculous
can this
corporate entities get? How the hell can you have right to sell my
photographs without my consent/notification or payment? If I dint put it
there, will you have access to sell it. Rhipplemedia finds it
annoyingly inappropriate.
The new intellectual property policy, which takes effect
on January 16, comes three months after Facebook completed its acquisition of
the popular photo-sharing site. Unless Instagram users delete their accounts
before the January deadline, they cannot opt out.
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. One irked Twitter user
quipped that "Instagram is now the new iStockPhoto, except they won't have
to pay you anything to use your images."
"It's asking people to agree to unspecified future
commercial use of their photos," says Kurt Opsahl, a senior staff attorney
at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "That makes it challenging for
someone to give informed consent to that deal."
That means that a hotel in Hawaii, for instance, could
write a check to Facebook to license photos taken at its resort and use them on
its Web site, in TV ads, in glossy brochures, and so on -- without paying any
money to the Instagram user who took the photo. The language would include not
only photos of picturesque sunsets on Waikiki, but also images of young
children frolicking on the beach, a result that parents might not expect, and
which could trigger state privacy laws.
This is just insane. These just lose their common sense in pursuit of money.
CNET
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