Instagram: 'Legal documents are easy to misinterpet'

December 19, 2012

Put down those artistically filtered torches and pitchforks: Instagram is dialing back its unpopular terms of service update. After Instagram users began exporting their photos and deleting their accounts en masse, the photo-sharing service on Tuesday wrote a blog post to clarify the terms of service changes that sparked fury on the Internet the past two days. At issue were concerns over whether Instagram would sell your photos to be used in advertisements without your permission or compensation, as the policy seemed to indicate. High-profile Instagram users, including photographers and bloggers, had threatened to abandon the site—if they hadn’t left already. In a post titled, “Thank you, and we’re listening,” Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom said “legal documents are easy to misinterpret.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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