I have a friend who is a copyright expert, not a lawyer but a photographer. he brought all this to my attention. Would you agree, that the odds of Tiny pic actually using the image, any image for anything later it about one in billion? and even then they could easily be sued, and their terms would not amount to a hill of beans?
Agree? I wouldn't hazard the world's wildest guess about what TinyPics intentions may be (or whether they've already actually exercised any of their "options").
And as for your friend's opinion, I'd guess that TP's terms of use were written by an intellectual property attorney and that it would take another of same to rebut them.
That said, I'll also guess that it's altogether possible that TP is using some sort of scanning algorithm to "sniff out" posted pics that may be suitable for upload to a "stock-house," but I'll sleep comfortably knowing that my screenshots do not fall into that category.
