social media terms of use

Court Reconsiders Decision About Website Getting License to Embedded Photo from Instagram Terms of Use

By David Oxenford|2020-06-26T11:18:01-05:00June 26th, 2020|Legal News|

We recently wrote about a case where a Judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York found that the website Mashable had a license to use a photo accessible from its site that was actually an embedded photo coming from the servers of Instagram. In that decision, the Court found... Continue Reading…

Court Decision Dismissing Photographer’s Lawsuit Shows Breadth of Rights Granted to Social Media and Denies Infringement Claim for Instagram Embedded Photo

By David Oxenford|2020-04-15T22:42:44-05:00April 15th, 2020|Legal News|

In an interesting Court decision from the Southern District of New York, a judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by a photographer for the use of her photo without permission by the website Mashable. Mashable defended against the claim by arguing that it did not need a license directly from the photographer as it had not... Continue Reading…