Instagram has the right to sell your photos - Off-Topic

#1 Posted by Final Arrow (24292 posts) - 5 months, 2 days ago - Show Bio

From an article at CNET: Link of full story at bottom.

Instagram said today that it has the perpetual right to sell users' photographs without payment or notification, a dramatic policy shift that quickly sparked a public outcry.

The new intellectual property policy, which takes effect on January 16, comes three months after Facebook finished its acquisition of the popular photo-sharing site. Unless Instagram users delete their accounts before the January deadline, they cannot opt out.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos/

#2 Posted by ComicMan24 (146835 posts) - 5 months, 2 days ago - Show Bio

So glad I never made an Instagram account. And ok, let's say that selling people's photos is ok, not even a notification(like they would ever pay us anyway)? Imagine one day, just casually checking a site only to see yourself in some ad.

#3 Posted by Pope of the Church of Gaiman (20 posts) - 5 months, 2 days ago - Show Bio

That seems dirty but my question is why would anyone ever want to buy your photos? Who buys photos at all?

#4 Posted by ComicMan24 (146835 posts) - 5 months, 2 days ago - Show Bio

@Pope of the Church of Gaiman said:

That seems dirty but my question is why would anyone ever want to buy your photos? Who buys photos at all?

Well in the article, it does say that some photos could be used for commercial purposes. Like pics of you and your family having fun at a hotel. That hotel, for example, could buy those pics and use them to promote it.

#5 Posted by Duncan (10058 posts) - 5 months, 2 days ago - Show Bio

Heh. That's pretty lame.

#6 Posted by Pope of the Church of Gaiman (20 posts) - 5 months, 2 days ago - Show Bio

@ComicMan24 said:

@Pope of the Church of Gaiman said:
That seems dirty but my question is why would anyone ever want to buy your photos? Who buys photos at all?
Well in the article, it does say that some photos could be used for commercial purposes. Like pics of you and your family having fun at a hotel. That hotel, for example, could buy those pics and use them to promote it.

Well sure they could but they could just as easily get some of their employees to get into street clothes and pose for a staged photo. If it matters that the photo was fake, I'm sure it would matter that it was stolen.

#7 Posted by INLIFE (666 posts) - 5 months, 2 days ago - Show Bio

These are strange times....

#8 Posted by Final Arrow (24292 posts) - 5 months, 2 days ago - Show Bio

@Pope of the Church of Gaiman said:

That seems dirty but my question is why would anyone ever want to buy your photos? Who buys photos at all?

Some companies will send out an e-mail to groups like this and ask for photos like people at the beach or playing basket ball. Instagram can then supply these pictures at a price and you have no right to fight against it nor do you get paid.

#9 Posted by ComicMan24 (146835 posts) - 5 months, 2 days ago - Show Bio

@Final Arrow said:

@Pope of the Church of Gaiman said:
That seems dirty but my question is why would anyone ever want to buy your photos? Who buys photos at all?
Some companies will send out an e-mail to groups like this and ask for photos like people at the beach or playing basket ball. Instagram can then supply these pictures at a price and you have no right to fight against it nor do you get paid.

Plus it is a much cheaper solution, I imagine.

#10 Posted by Final Arrow (24292 posts) - 5 months, 2 days ago - Show Bio

@ComicMan24: Yeah saves them loads, almost no over heads for it. How you doing man, meant to reply to your wall post but forgot XD.

#11 Posted by TheSheepHerder (11926 posts) - 5 months, 2 days ago - Show Bio

@Pope of the Church of Gaiman said:

Who buys photos at all?

Mostly corporate people. A stock agency (e.g. iStockphoto) supplies generic photographs of construction workers, doctors et al for corporate people to use on their websites or brochures and such.

And this is just so profoundly idiotic of Instagram and Facebook. Really, what the f^ck?

#12 Posted by InnerVenom123 (27538 posts) - 5 months, 2 days ago - Show Bio

LMFAO.

#13 Posted by YoungJustice (5668 posts) - 5 months, 2 days ago - Show Bio

And I have the right to shoot somebody if they come on my property chasing their cat, but should I?

Online

#14 Posted by mrdecepticonleader (10350 posts) - 5 months, 2 days ago - Show Bio

Never heard of it till now,and I am glad that is the case.

#15 Posted by danhimself (18740 posts) - 5 months, 2 days ago - Show Bio

this is like the intellectual property uproar on Facebook...I still don't care....if they want my crappy photos of food and rocks and food and walls and food then they can have them...how exactly does this hurt anyone

#16 Edited by INLIFE (666 posts) - 5 months, 1 day ago - Show Bio

@danhimself said:

this is like the intellectual property uproar on Facebook...I still don't care....if they want my crappy photos of food and rocks and food and walls and food then they can have them...how exactly does this hurt anyone

Things like these lead to much bigger things. You know....First steps. It might be crappy photos today, but it will most likely lead to other, more important, significant, and private things in your life as time goes on.