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In the week before Christmas Facebook announced that, as from January 16th, there would be compulsory changes to the terms of service of the photo-sharing service Instagram which Facebook bought for $1bn in April 2012. The new terms of service read: "You hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the content that you post on or through the service," adding "a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos, and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you." Is that clear? You'd have thought so, but Facebook then claimed that people who had been outraged by these terms had been misled by the "confusing" choice of language used in the new terms. Eventually, in the face of strident criticism, Fac...

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