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…
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
Be honest with yourself: Even if you’re a power Instagrammer, the social aspect of the network really sucks. (You can’t re-share photos? What the hell is that?) If you’re going to use a third-party photo app just to share onto your other, more powerful networks, you might as well make it one that doesn’t have a complete disdain for its users.
Photographer Chase Jarvis outlines a simple and direct analysis of Instagram’s assault on your creativity and urges you to take a stance against the new Terms of Service.
Instagram is blowing it hard on both the WHAT (selling your images with no profit to you) and the HOW…by changing the ToC to gobble up your imagery bound to by using the service after allowing users to build up huge followings and large libraries of imagery. Lame sauce and an assault on your work
Earlier this year, I wrote an article entitled “Why Instagram is Terrible for Photographers, and You Should Use It.” Today, I’d like to fully retract that statement because, screw those guys for ruining something fun. First, no one should be surprised tha
What they have done is signal the end and failure of what could have been a revolutionary social media platform for visual communication. Now, I must take a step back and reassess my place on Instagram.
—Benjamin Lowy
Instagram issued a new Terms of Service yesterday (here) that will allow the company to use your photos commercially without any compensation to you: Some or all of the Service may be supported by advertising revenue. To help us deliver interesting paid o
“Note the key parenthetical — ‘(along with any associated metadata)’ — which you could read as ‘location data.’ In essence, if you go to the Palms in Las Vegas and snap a pic… Facebook Instagram may use that photograph in an advertisement for the Palms that reaches your friends.
Today Instagram unleashed brand-new terms of service that has rubbed many of its loyal users the wrong way. Instagram can sell your photos to third parties for ads without telling you.
Today Instagram unleashed brand-new terms of service that has rubbed many of its loyal users the wrong way. Instagram can sell your photos to third parties for ads without telling you.
Organisations representing visual artists and photographers in Europe have written to the UK government to protest proposed changes to the country’s copyright laws, BJP reports
First, no declaration by you, in a Facebook posting, would make any difference to the legal status of your posts. You’re already protected by copyright law.
The American Society of Media Photographers, Professional Photographers of America, National Press Photographers Association, Picture Archive Council of America, American Photographic Artists and Graphic Artists Guild have submitted a joint letter to the
“US organisations representing photographers and photo agencies have written to the UK government to oppose proposed changes to the country’s copyright laws that would make it legal to use ‘foreign works without the knowledge and permission of the copyright owners’
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There’s more at stake in the Megaupload case than the freedom of Kim Dotcom and his file-sharing associates indicted on criminal copyright infringement and other charges. The privacy and property rights of its users are also in jeopardy. There’s no clear
The problem lies in the fact that there is currently no clear process for owners to retrieve property that federal prosecutors effectively seized when they shuttered the file-sharing and cyberlocker service last January over issues of alleged copyright infringement.
Like many online media outlets, Buzzfeed is moving toward the so-called “sponsored stories” advertising model — a blending of advertising and editorial content placed smack dab in the content stream. But 6-year-old Buzzfeed, whose motto is to capture the
Buzzfeed, he said, has image deals with several agencies, including The Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images and celebrity shops. Sometimes, he said, the site has the rights to photos, but its staff lift them from blogs on the internet, where the picture was already pilfered, he said.
Hey, America, no need to feel left out! You’re soon to join Britain, France and New Zealand in having a sneaky program to spy on your Internet connection and cut you off on the basis of unpro…
At only 22 years old, LA resident Megan McIsaac has a truly impressive body of work under her belt. She has a way of capturing the world around her with pure honesty; of illicting incredibly intimate reactions from her subject matter
The Cool Hunter is an influential website that’s been aggregating/curating on the web for a very long time. It’s one of the precursors to Pinterest where the author goes out and collects things found online and reposts them for their audience. And, Cool H
Any business that is not posting images they own on Facebook should be very worried about this development. It makes me wonder if Facebook is showing Pinterest that the proper way to curate is to upload something you own the rights to then enable the sharing
A landmark fair use ruling: a judge in the Southern District Court of New York has ruled that Google’s program of scanning books for libraries, and giving them copies to use for full-text sea…
An alleged copyright infringer appears to have gotten his just desserts from Facebook, which has summarily removed his Facebook fan page. But the story highlights the lack of transparency in Facebook’s policy regarding its handling of infringement claims.
An alleged copyright infringer appears to have gotten his just desserts from Facebook, which has summarily removed his Facebook fan page. But the story highlights the lack of transparency in Facebook’s policy regarding its handling of infringement claims.
Google and five publishers said Thursday they are settling a long-running legal flap over the media giant’s scanning of university library books without permission. The deal is a huge concession by Google, which up until now had maintained it had the fair
The deal is a huge concession by Google, which up until now had maintained it had a fair-use right under copyright law and did not need permission from rights holders to scan the digital library of the future.
Although the Copyright Alert System seems to be milder than its French counterpart, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights movement, has expressed their discontentment with the proposal. They argue that a lack of transparency concerning the available measures for ISPs, and a lack of public input may result in an ineffective policy
