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News flash - YouTube also has a TOS that allows them to license and resell your uploaded content and it has worked this way for years.
by rwhitman 14y ago
News flash - YouTube also has a TOS that allows them to license and resell your uploaded content and it has worked this way for years.
- grinich 14y agoSortof. They have similar clauses, but the YouTube TOS (similar to other services like Dropbox, Flicker, etc.) gives them a "worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free ... transferable license" to provide the service. Legally, you need a "license" for somebody's content in order to access it and generate a thumbnail. This change in Instagram's TOS is different: Some or all of the Service may be supported by advertising revenue. 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 Note, this is essentially what Facebook does when you "like" a company's page.