July 10, 2013

Instagram

Instagram unveiled a sharing feature Wednesday that allows easy embedding of users’ photos, as long as their photos are public. For instance, here’s one of Washington, D.C., artist Mingering Mike accepting an award from the D.C. Council wearing a Spider-Man outfit:



Pretty sweet! Perhaps mindful of the dustup that occurred when it proposed changes to its terms of service, Instagram goes to great pains to note authorship of content will be evident:

As always, you own your photos and videos, and we want to make sure that’s understood no matter where your content appears. Whether you want to embed your video on your blog or a friend wants to feature your photo on a website, everyone will clearly see that your content belongs to you.

There’s still no Instagram equivalent of a retweet function, though.

Related: How newsrooms are using Instagram

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Andrew Beaujon reported on the media for Poynter from 2012 to 2015. He was previously arts editor at TBD.com and managing editor of Washington City…
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