No, Instagram can’t sell your photos: what the new terms of service really mean

No, Instagram can’t sell your photos: what the new terms of service really mean

You agree that a business may pay Instagram to display your photos in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions without any compensation to you.
That sentence was added to…

via The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/18/3780158/instagrams-new-terms-of-service-what-they-really-mean

If all of this seems vaguely familiar, it’s because it’s basically what Facebook has been doing with Sponsored Posts for months now — advertisers can pay to “sponsor” your posts in various categories to make sure they prominently appear in your friends’ News Feeds. So if you “like” The Hobbit, the filmmakers can pay Facebook to promote that post across Facebook