Lawsuit Alleges Lensa.ai App Illegally Took Users’ Biometric Data
A group in Illinois has filed a class action lawsuit against California-based Prisma Labs, the company behind the artificial intelligence-powered photo editing app, Lensa.ai.
Vero Updates its Policy to Assure Users it Doesn’t Own Their Photos
Vero has updated its terms of use to remove the word "perpetual" from the license section to make it clear that the image rights granted by users are limited to the time that users have a Vero account.
Instagram’s Moral Imperative: Let Users Disable Embedding
The past few years have made it abundantly clear that platforms hold disproportionate power in the online sphere – from Uber to Grubhub to Amazon. Online success is predicated on building both utility as well as a critical mass of users, and for that, platforms should be congratulated.
Photobucket Just Broke Billions of Photos Across the Web
Since 2003, the popular photo hosting service Photobucket has been letting users upload and host images for free on their servers. They have over 10 billion images stored by 100 million registered users. But now they're going to start charging, and that means billions of images around the Web are now broken.
A Lawyer Digs Into Instagram’s Terms of Use
Social media have so thoroughly infused our everyday lives that calling them “ubiquitous” seems inadequate. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, and others take up an astonishing amount of our time, bandwidth, and attention, and have become indispensable business and marketing tools as well.
Instagram Responds to Controversy Over New ToS, Promises Changes
If you had any doubts regarding how much of a part of our culture Instagram has become, just take a peek at the public outcry that erupted after Instagram announced changes to its policies yesterday. The controversial edits were reported in media outlets around the world, and legions of die-hard Instagram fans took to social media channels to protest them.
People mainly focused on a section of the document that appears to give Instagram sweeping permissions to sell photos without consent or compensation to third-parties for advertising purposes.
You Don’t Own Anything Anymore: Copyright Law in an Internet Age
John Herrman over at BuzzFeed has written up an interesting piece on how and why "grabby" terms of service have become ubiquitous in the online world of social media: