TwitPic sold content rights to WENN

I have been a Twitter user for quite some time, and one of its derivatives is the photo-service Twitpic.com. Honestly, I never read the rules of the service, and did not think about who owns the rights to the photos that I post via Twitter on TwitPic. I didn’t bother because, by and large, I don’t care who and for what purposes will use my pictures, there’s nothing really secret about it, like most users. But today TechCrunch has published interesting information on this: it turns out that previously all the rights to the photo belonged to the service itself, which is stated in the user agreement, and now these rights have been purchased by WENN. Why does the agency need our photos? They do not need him, the guys hunt for pictures of so-called celebrities ( preview photo of Jim Carrey - just with TwitPic ).

And after all, they, celebrities, made TwitPic so popular, because it is here that often appear photos that are not on the pages of tabloids, online media and other publications. Users who are important to these same celebrities, often closely follow the flow of all the nonsense information generated by actors, singers and other personalities. In this stream, no, no, yes, and photographs taken by celebrities in different places.
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And now the rights to all these photos belong to the above-mentioned agency WENN, which received “light bread” - now there is no need for hours and days to hunt those same celebrities in order to get another photo of the pants of the next actress. Now you just need to monitor the accounts of stars, stars and stars, which lay out the desired photos for the agency and fans on their own.

In general, a rather interesting situation, which many TwitPic users may not like. What the hell is not joking, what if this agency decides to use someone's photos for its dark purposes? Most do not care, but there are those who do not need it at all. Yes, of course, uploading your own photos to the public, in order to be outraged by their general accessibility, is not entirely logical, but the situation is still a bit different. It's one thing when photos belong to everyone and no one in particular, and another thing is when someone has more rights to your photos than you do. Something like this.

I myself will continue to use TwitPic, well, and who does not like the situation, you can start working with another service, the good, there are many alternatives.

Via TechCrunch