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December 18, 2012 CNET Community
Photo-sharing site says it now has the right to sell your photos
Dear CNET members,
Imagine this: you're at a beach in Hawaii, snapping photos of your family
having the time of their lives. Later, you upload them to your favorite
photo-sharing site to show your family and friends on your social network,
not giving it a second thought. Two years from now, you go to a travel
site to book another trip to Hawaii, and lo and behold, you see a
familiar-looking photo in an advertisement for the Hawaii resort you are
looking into. You look a bit closer and you realize that in the
advertisement is a picture of your kids at the beach that you took two
years ago! You wrack your brains trying to figure out how it happened, who
did it, and why.
If you think this scenario is a bit frightening or just can't be, you
better take note of this report by CNET writer Declan McCullagh:
"Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos." Declan
reports that with the first major policy shift since Facebook bought the
photo-sharing site, Instagram claims the right to sell users' photos
without payment or notification. And if you don't opt out of this by
deleting your Instagram account by January 16, you can't opt out of it
afterward.
So what do you think of this new policy? Do you care that your photos
could potentially be used or sold for commercial purposes without being
notified? Or do you believe that this is just part of business, and
because it's a free site and the photos that you post on Instagram are
made public, this shouldn't be a shock to anyone? If you are a user of
Instagram, are you going to opt out before the deadline? If you aren't a
user of Instagram, does this change how you would use photo-sharing
sites in general, and how so? Read Declan's article and share how you
feel!
Lee Koo
Community manager View profile |
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Here's what some of your fellow members had to say
about this week's topic:
Instagram says it now has the right to sell your
photos
"Stop moaning. Its a free app with
millions of users - how do you expect a company to
keep afloat offering a free service with continual
updates hosting so much content? If you are all
photographers whose IG pics are how you make your
living then fair enough but none of you are, are you?
so you're not..." Read more
Posted by Jarvdesign
"The part that worries me even
more than that is that a lot of KIDS are on
Instagram, posting photos of themselves (and their
friends) left and right. Instagram is currently the
biggest social media site (bigger than Facebook) for
my 12-year-old daughter..." Read more
Posted by instamom
"As an artist, I
am really upset with this. I post pictures of MY art
that I myself created on Instragram to allow my
family, friends, acquaintances and fellow artists to
see my work, including progress as people always ask
to watch my art come to life while I'm drawing or
painting. This is horrible of Instagram and..."
Read more
Posted by GondorArt
"For
those of you playing the "it's a free service card",
the only reason this "free service" is sustainable is
because users like us generate the content. I'm okay
with data mining, I'm okay with revenue-sharing, and
I'm okay with targeted ads. These are a fair price to
pay for free content. Telling me that everything I've
ever created and ever will create no longer
belongs..." Read more
Posted by MarcNash
Read all members'
responses
Speak up
What are your thoughts? Weigh in on this week's
topic.
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