Class-Action Lawsuit Goes After Instagram Terms of Service Changes

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @02:20AM from the for-users-read-lawyers dept.

New submitter Alex Belits writes "Users of the Instagram image sharing service owned by Facebook filed a class action against Facebook for the recent change in Terms of Service." The changes that were supposed to take effect on January 16, 2013 declared for Facebook an unlimited right to use and license users' photos, added an arbitration requirement for legal disputes, and more. Guess the lawyers involved here weren't impressed enough by Facebook's hasty back-pedaling on this front; the company did explicitly disclaim ownership interest in the uploaded photos after a wave of complaints, but left in place certain other clauses in the new terms.

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Human hypocrisy by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-25 02:29 · Score: 2, Interesting

When Facebook uses the content we create for free it's bad, but when we use other people's content for free RIAA is bad!
Re:They have no cause by Khyber · 2012-12-25 03:21 · Score: 3, Interesting

There's plenty of cause to the suit.
Look up "Contract of Adhesion" then re-read the old and revised TOS.
There is literally no 'meeting of the minds' here and the new/old EUA/TOS is quite overreaching with regards to personal copyright.

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