Salon.com > intellectual property rights http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Instagram says your photos won’t end up in ads, after all http://www.salon.com/2012/12/19/instragram_says_your_photos_wont_end_up_in_ads_after_all/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/19/instragram_says_your_photos_wont_end_up_in_ads_after_all/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13149660 After the hearing the Internet's audible outcry over Instagram's updated terms of service, which technically give Instagram and its parent company, Facebook, the right to sell users' photo for profit without consent, compensation, or notification, Instragram is backpedaling and revising their terms. Lawyers, reporters and rights activists interpreted the vague language to mean that Instagram will sell its users' photos to ad agencies. Yesterday, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom issued a note saying, "This is not true and it is our mistake that this language is confusing." "We are working on updated language in the terms to make sure this is clear," he wrote.

Systrom also assuaged fears of users appearing in ads without their consent:

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