My god, people, calm down. This isn't instagram trying to use your photos as stock photos.
First: they're not good enough. They're snapshots taken with camera phones, they're not marketing materials.
Second: that would piss off their users, and no sane company would ever do this. The thing you're seeing in their ToS is an interpretation that allows for this.
Expect a statement from instagram confirming that they will change their ToS to explicitly disallow this sometime today.
In the meantime: calm down, go outside for a walk.
>The thing you're seeing in their ToS is an interpretation that allows for this.
Then maybe companies shouldn't amend their ToS to "allow" for things that are so utterly odious. None of the other companies that matter do this, so the claim that this is standard boilerplate is bunkola.
I came here to post almost exactly this. This happens regularly with the big sites - some idiot lawyer writes an overly cautious ToS change, everyone gets up in arms about it, the site writes an apology clarifying (and probably fires the lawyer).
It seems common sense to me if you just think it to the end: do you REALLY think taking a photo of me drinking Coke (against my will) would be good advertising? Or selling my photo as a stock photo without compensating me - that that would fly? Really? It seems absolutely obvious to me that Instagram has no interest whatsoever in doing what people are all afraid they'll be doing.
>It seems absolutely obvious to me that Instagram has no interest whatsoever in doing what people are all afraid they'll be doing
The same question is raised: Why have it in the TOS if it's not going to happen? At the very least it shows a great lack of care for the operation of their business (in which case you should think twice about using the service), at most it shows a complete disregard for their users (also in which case you should think twice about using the service).
First: they're not good enough. They're snapshots taken with camera phones, they're not marketing materials.
Second: that would piss off their users, and no sane company would ever do this. The thing you're seeing in their ToS is an interpretation that allows for this.
Expect a statement from instagram confirming that they will change their ToS to explicitly disallow this sometime today.
In the meantime: calm down, go outside for a walk.