Here's how to backup and delete your Instagram photos and account.
Why is this a big deal? Well first off Instagram is saying that every single photo on Instagram servers they claim 100% ownership over, including distribution. Second they are going to sell it, make tons of money, and give you zero credit and not a single penny for your work. Third, Instagram is going to become a Stock Photo site without having to pay any photographers or credit them. What a deal for them right? All it takes is a simple bait and switch change in their 'policies' to make it happen.
Total BS.
Oh yeah, user's cannot opt out of it.
There is also a CYA clause in their new 'policies' that make themselves not liable if (and when) they make private photos public. So if you have photos you think are protected and private now, Instagram can still use them in the public's eye and you can't do anything about it unless you delete your account. Which I did a few hours ago.
I have used Instagram for years now, thousands of snapshots where up there, I sent every Instagram photo to Flickr so I had a copy and easy for me to cut free. But I see lots of people that use Instagram with high quality professional photography. Self promotion, drive people to their site, drum up business. On Jan. 16, those pro photos may end up on a postcard without your name on it.
This move is a good business model for Instagram, build a cache of millions of geo tagged photos, claim them all as their own, cut out the uploaders, profit. Then next time you go to a resort, park, event the location owners can pay a fee to Instagram to buy all the stock photos taken there by you. Good deal huh?
This is a slimy move by Facebook, the owner of Instagram, and sets a dangerous precedence on Cloud services legal terms and conditions. Change them to cover your own butt at the expense of your users. Pathetic and wrong.
I cancelled my Instagram account and going all in with Flickr. Flickr is a great service and with their brand new iPhone app overhaul it's better than Instagram's app now anyway. Sane service, same sharing capabilities, filters, and so far protected from this crap. Yahoo! better take note on the fallout from Instagram's move and make a big PR push to be anti-T&C bully. Be for the users or you will lose them all... and I hope Instagram does over this.
Get educated and realize what they are doing. Even if they back track and rescind this I won't go back.
End of Line.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos/
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