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12 May 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 06:08 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Picture posting service Twitpic has apologised for seeming to claim copyright on every image users upload.<\/p>\n

A row blew up over photographs on Twitpic following changes made to the service’s terms on 10 May.<\/p>\n

Many users cancelled their Twitpic accounts because the changes implied that the site was claiming the right to sell pictures without permission.<\/p>\n

Twitpic defended itself and said the new rules were intended to protect users’ photos from abuse by the media.<\/p>\n

Cash call<\/span><\/p>\n

Twitpic founder Noah Everett apologised via the company blog for the “lack of clarity” in the updated Terms and Conditions.<\/p>\n

Mr Everett stressed that Twitpic account holders own the copyright on the images and said the terms had been changed again to show “that you still own your content”.<\/p>\n

However, by signing up to Twitpic users also agree to let the service distribute their images to the company’s partners.<\/p>\n

This clause was needed, said Mr Everett, because as Twitpic has grown, a lot of the pictures that people post to it have found their way into reports about newsworthy events.<\/p>\n

One of the most famous images posted on Twitpic came from January 2009 when a US Airways jet crash landed on the Hudson river<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We’ve seen this content being taken without permission and misused,” wrote Mr Everett<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By changing the terms, Twitpic hopes to limit this abuse. In this vein it recently signed an exclusive deal with the Wenn news group to syndicate images posted on Twitpic.<\/p>\n

The apology and re-write of the terms came too late for many who said they had deleted their accounts and removed their photos.<\/p>\n

Evidence of how strongly people felt about the issue was seen by the hashtags #twitpic and #delete trending in conjunction on the micro-blogging service.<\/p>\n

Many also felt that the explanation did little to clear up the ambiguity over who would profit from a newsworthy photo. Mr Everett was pressed for a clearer statement via his account on Twitter. So far he has not replied.<\/p>\n

Twitpic’s terms and conditions are similar to those of many other Twitter picture services such as Yfrog, Flickr and Instagram which all give those firms the right to redistribute images.<\/p>\n

The row prompted MobyPictures to change its terms to include a specific clause which<\/a> says it will not try to sell users’ images.<\/p>\n

Twitpic is not the first new media company to irritate its users by changing their terms and conditions. Facebook has weathered several controversial changes as has Apple, Flickr and Google.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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