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"Instagram says 'it's not our intention to sell your photos'"
Reply to: by simon90
they’re being condescending by saying "legal documents are easy to misinterpret"
It’s the usual obvious face-saving fluff.
There is $1 billion – Facebook’s acquisition value of Instagram – hanging on the interpretation of those few words – because Facebook’s challenge has been how to monetize Instagram, and the way that Instagram can exploit the images is their key to monetising its business and realising their investment. So the idea that they somehow forgot to ask their lawyers to make that paragraph clear and hadn’t really thought about what it meant, that they had written it in a way that was ‘easy to misinterpret’ doesn’t sound very probable.
Of course, the wording wasn’t easy to misinterpret, it was just so far as possible worded to sound as though it ought to be about something innocent – “interesting content” – but the actual meaning of the language was quite clear enough.
Reply to: by simon90
It’s the usual obvious face-saving fluff.
There is $1 billion – Facebook’s acquisition value of Instagram – hanging on the interpretation of those few words – because Facebook’s challenge has been how to monetize Instagram, and the way that Instagram can exploit the images is their key to monetising its business and realising their investment. So the idea that they somehow forgot to ask their lawyers to make that paragraph clear and hadn’t really thought about what it meant, that they had written it in a way that was ‘easy to misinterpret’ doesn’t sound very probable.
Of course, the wording wasn’t easy to misinterpret, it was just so far as possible worded to sound as though it ought to be about something innocent – “interesting content” – but the actual meaning of the language was quite clear enough.