Instagram Terms of Use

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PMC 220 - Contract Law, Ethics, and IT Professionalism

Victor Aumaitre

INSTAGRAM TERMS OF USE


Basic Terms
- “You must not create or submit unwanted email, comments, likes or other forms of commercial or
harassing communications (a/k/a "spam") to any Instagram users.”
- “Violation of these Terms of Use may, in Instagram's sole discretion, result in termination of your
Instagram account. You understand and agree that Instagram cannot and will not be responsible for
the Content posted on the Service and you use the Service at your own risk…”

According to this term, a very common Instagram practice such as the submission of any kind of unwanted
communication, for instance, commercial comments or likes (spam), might cause the cancelation of your
Instagram account.


General Conditions
- “We reserve the right to modify or terminate the Service or your access to the Service for any reason,
without notice, at any time, and without liability to you”… “If we terminate your access to the Service
or you use the form detailed above to deactivate your account, your photos, comments, likes,
friendships, and all other data will no longer be accessible through your account (e.g., users will not
be able to navigate to your username and view your photos), but those materials and data may
persist and appear within the Service (e.g., if your Content has been re-shared by others).”

According with this condition, Instagram can terminate or modify their services at any moment and without reason
or notification. Also, the content and material submitted by the users will not be removed from the service even if
the user account is cancelled. So we should be very cautious about the content submitted.


Rights
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“The Instagram name and logo are trademarks of
Instagram, and may not be copied, imitated or
used, in whole or in part, without the prior
written permission of Instagram”… “In addition,
all page headers, custom graphics, button icons
and scripts are service marks, trademarks and/or
trade dress of Instagram, and may not be copied,
imitated or used, in whole or in part, without prior
written permission from Instagram.”
Example 1.

According with this term, Instagram’s logo, design, graphics, etc.; are trademarks, which means that the frame
shown in the Example 1 would not be legal unless prior written permission from Instagram has been obtained.
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“Instagram does not claim ownership of any Content that you post on or through the Service. Instead,
you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide license to use the Content that you post on or through the Service, subject to
the Service's Privacy Policy”

According with this term, you are giving Instagram free, non-exclusive and worldwide license of all the material
posted in Instagram. So Instagram has the right to use all the data posted without authorization (they already have
it) or having to pay for royalties to the authors of the material.

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