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Released: December 20, 2012
Instagram draws ire over new user rules
Source: Jessica Guynn, L.A.Times (Free Registration)
Instagram's usually devoted users threatened to delete their accounts en masse Tuesday if the popular photo-sharing app did not roll back new terms of service that appeared to give the company ownership of their images. Instagram users — about 100 million now — snap the photos on their smartphones, apply digital filters to enhance the photos and then instantly share them with friends.
Instagram founder Kevin Systrom tried to calm the uproar and reassure users in a blog post Tuesday afternoon.
"Instagram does not claim any ownership rights over your photos," he wrote. "We respect that your photos are your photos. Period."
Instagram's new terms of service announced Monday included a clause stating that Instagram had the right to turn images into advertisements without any approval from or compensation for users starting Jan. 16. — part of Facebook's drive to make money from the service it bought this year for $715 million in cash and stock.
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