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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
I’ve always loved this quote, ever since I read the book cover to cover seven times in one year because it was the prescribed book for my high school finals. And now I’ve finally been able to work the quote into one of my blog posts.
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Hey, that thing we’re saying is a nightmare, you should totally do it with our content!
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“I worry that Facebook is killing meaningful communication.”
(via Chuck & Beans)
Instagram's new terms of service
Here is an excerpt from Instagram’s new, post Facebook-acquisition terms of service:
Instagram does NOT claim ANY ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, applications, or any other materials (collectively, “Content”) that you post on or through the Instagram Services. By displaying or publishing (“posting”) any Content on or through the Instagram Services, you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, worldwide, limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce and translate such Content, including without limitation distributing part or all of the Site in any media formats through any media channels, except Content not shared publicly (“private”) will not be distributed outside the Instagram Services.
It’s important to note that nothing’s changed in this particular section since the pre-Facebook version. I guess what has changed is that we’re paying more attention now. So, here’s my non-lawyer interpretation of this section:
We don’t own your stuff, but we can do whatever we want with it.
Which kind of sounds like it can be shortened to:
We own your stuff.
Any lawyers out there who can clarify what’s going on here?
Update:
Paul Jacobson responds in a good post:
Moving away from the legal geekery, the new Instagram license is not a land grab. It is a pretty reasonable license given the nature of the service and doesn’t equate to “We own your stuff”. Rather it’s more like “We can do things with your stuff to make Instagram work”.
