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Easy Canvas Prints Has a Nasty Rights Grab in TOS

October 15, 2013 By Eric Reagan

Easy Canvas Prints

If you’ve seen deals from Easy Canvas Prints that look just too darn good for a large canvas print, then you might just be onto something. As it turns out, Easy Canvas Prints’ terms of service allows the company to use photos you upload “in advertising, marketing, samples, and promotional materials.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Legal Tagged With: Easy Canvas Prints, rights grab, Scam, terms of service

 

Instagram Wants to Sell Your Photos . . . Without Paying You . . . and Hold You Liable for Model Releases and Infringing Others’ Rights

December 18, 2012 By Eric Reagan

Instagram just went off the deep end with its latest terms of service update, which allows the company to sell your images without paying your at all for their use.

The relevant provision regarding the sale of your images is found under Item 2 of “Rights” in the Terms of Service as follows:

To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you.

This provision on its own doesn’t bother me so much as a casual user. It grates me a bit, but I’m not really sweating Instagram’s use of my images reposted as advertisements or promoted content on the service. However, I recognize that a lot of photographers out there use Instagram as a more serious marketing endeavor or have licensing issues with their images that they can’t allow such use without otherwise jeopardizing their business.

The major hiccup for me comes under Item 4 of “Rights” as excerpted below: [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Instagram, terms of service

Twitter Teams with Photobucket for Direct Photo Sharing

June 2, 2011 By Eric Reagan

Twitter has announced that it will soon be rolling out an “official” method of sharing photos on Twitter.  However, Twitter will apparently not be hosting the images – rather the images will be hosted and served by Photobucket. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Legal Tagged With: law, Legal, online sharing, photobucket, photography, Photos, terms, terms of service, tos, twitter

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