Rights grab by instagram

[gordon g]

For those of you who post images on instagram, are you prepared to lose copyright on your work?
I dont know the full details of the story, only what I have read here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20767537 , not being on facebook or instagram, but it looks to me that they want to sell users' work and pocket the proceeds with neither specific consent or compensation.
If I had an account with them, I'd delete it...

[miketoll]

Was just going to post another link to this story.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57...l-your-photos/

Only thing to do is to is delete all photos then close delete the account and never use them again. If they can get away with it then where could it end, other companies might try something similar.

[graham harcombe]

It's caused quite a stir. You may wish to try this site. My son (who is an IT professional) has used it to effect the removal of his Instagram shots to Flickr.

[cswift1]

Personally I think that Facebook's lawyers (and this is really coming from them, isn't it?) are figuring out new and more devious ways to suck money out of people. To paraphrase an article I read, Facebook's share price has risen slightly over the last couple of months as Wall Street has responded to their program of (verbatim) "...monetizing their mobile device users."

I don't know about you, but it sounds just amazingly crass to think that they're "monetizing" people. Very creepy.

Anyone who has a shred of responsibility about their work should shut down their Instagram account before January 16th, that's when the big rip kicks off.

[walwyn]

You are not our customers, you are the cattle we drive to market and auction off to the highest bidder. Enjoy your feed and keep producing the milk.

Same old same old.

[zoe_m]

Hmm, I'd never post anything on Instragram that I'd actually consider selling :/ Mostly just selfies, a few city shots and pics of my dog

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