Rodriguez v. Instagram

When Facebook bought Instagram, it updated the retroactively updatable contract.

Old terms, pre-Facebook:

Instagram disclaimed ownership rights in content users post.

So Instagram could manage posted content, users agreed to a non-exclusive limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and translate content users posted on Instagram.

New terms, after Facebook:

Instagram disclaims ownership of content

Users agree to a transferable and sub-licensable license to use the content users post with no explicit limitations. New terms added a liability waiver.

The new license agreement means users have no control over what Instagram does with their content.

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