Insta-Rage As Instagram Claims Right To Sell Your Photos

This “Just Ain’t Right”
We Own Them, But They Can Be ‘Used For Profit” By Others?…

Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service that Facebook bought this year, is the target of a storm of outrage on Twitter and other sites after a change in its user agreement hinted that it might use shared photos in ads.

It’s not clear that anything substantive has changed in Instagram’s new terms of service, which were posted Monday and go into effect January 16. As is the case before, the service reserves the right to use shared photos in any matter it likes, though the photographers keep “ownership” of the photos.

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by Brisbane times Digital Life/Via AP