Every once in awhile a new latest greatest thing sweeps photography. Like a few years back when de-colorizing certain parts of pictures or sloppy borders first came out. Now it appears that Instagram is THE hot thing. Back in the late 70′s in the hey day of Polaroid and crappy kodak 110 cameras we strived to create cleaner sharper images, i guess now we are going backwards to make them look vintage?. But to each is own, the problem i have is nobody every reads the fine print. As with most of these services you will read that although they don’t own the content you upload, they have full rights to use it anyway they want. So if you take an image for instance sent to you by a professional photographer, apply Instagram you not only are violating that persons copyright policy but if they use it in the form of advertising without the permission of the subjects you risk legal action on the photographer as well and are responsible for any damages. (Read lines 2&3 under Proprietary Rights)
Its a fun app, just use it with your own images ….
Keeping that ugly logo on it keeps them from using it and promotes your photographers business.
