Twitpic, photo uploading service Twitter, the service changed the rules of copyright for the content posted sale
Is photo-sharing service Twitter Twitpic want the copyrights of its users? It would seem today, when it was learned that the service did change the rules of usage. According to the updated license agreement, the rights to images belong to the company arise, and can even sell them on transfer rights to other bodies - without any approval from the user. Accordingly, Twitpic allowed to use images on its site and other sites of the company - again without obtaining permission ("buvd standard photo sharing sites, according to the company.) At one point even using the new rules included a paragraph that states that the user may not sell the pictures to agencies pictures or websites without the approval of the company, but this paragraph download speed after using Twitter piped it turned the attention of users into draconian. In light of the storm that occurred in light of the changes among Twitter users, back in Twitpic decisions changed the rules again to use the service. Founder of the service, convenient Everett, the company published a blog post in which he declared that the rights will always be relevance to users. The company apologized that "changes have caused confusion among users" and claimed she was only trying to protect their pictures taking illegal. "You, the user, keeping all copyright of your video images," Everett explained. Towetepyak is the most popular service for uploading photos to Twitter. Service about four million users and earns more than a million dollars a year. The service also refused a purchase offer last year for $ 10 million total.
Twitpic Sorry Post:
Your content, your copyrights
We recently made changes to our terms of service that has caused some confusion for our users. First off I want to apologize for that confusion and our lack of clarity. We’ve updated our terms again to be more clear and to also show that you still own your content.
Our goal with Twitpic from the beginning has been to create the best way to share your photos and videos on Twitter and to always keep our user’s best interest at the forefront.
To clarify our ToS regarding ownership, you the user retain all copyrights to your photos and videos, it’s your content. Our terms state by uploading content to Twitpic you allow us to distribute that content on twitpic.com and our affiliated partners. This is standard among most user-generated content sites (including Twitter). If you delete a photo or video from Twitpic, that content is no longer viewable.
As we’ve grown, Twitpic has been a tool for the spread of breaking news and events. Since then we’ve seen this content being taken without permission and misused. We’ve partnered with organizations to help us combat this and to distribute newsworthy content in the appropriate manner. This has been done to protect your content from organizations who have in the past taken content without permission. As recently as last month, a Twitpic user uploaded newsworthy images of an incident on a plane, and many commercial entities took the image from Twitpic and used it without the user’s permission.
To sum everything up, you the user retain all copyrights to your photos/videos and we are very sorry by the confusion our old updated terms of service caused.
Thank you for choosing Twitpic – @noaheverett (Noah Everett)
Our goal with Twitpic from the beginning has been to create the best way to share your photos and videos on Twitter and to always keep our user’s best interest at the forefront.
To clarify our ToS regarding ownership, you the user retain all copyrights to your photos and videos, it’s your content. Our terms state by uploading content to Twitpic you allow us to distribute that content on twitpic.com and our affiliated partners. This is standard among most user-generated content sites (including Twitter). If you delete a photo or video from Twitpic, that content is no longer viewable.
As we’ve grown, Twitpic has been a tool for the spread of breaking news and events. Since then we’ve seen this content being taken without permission and misused. We’ve partnered with organizations to help us combat this and to distribute newsworthy content in the appropriate manner. This has been done to protect your content from organizations who have in the past taken content without permission. As recently as last month, a Twitpic user uploaded newsworthy images of an incident on a plane, and many commercial entities took the image from Twitpic and used it without the user’s permission.
To sum everything up, you the user retain all copyrights to your photos/videos and we are very sorry by the confusion our old updated terms of service caused.
Thank you for choosing Twitpic – @noaheverett (Noah Everett)
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