http://thenakedcamera.com/your-instagram-photos-at-a-museum-sold-for-90k-each-without-your-consent/

Don’t rely on the internal metadata either, it’s easily stripped off with so much as a format shift.

ALL OF THOSE SITES

They will also use them to make money. A typical one is a calendar competition. They print 12 and then ‘sell on’ the other 12000 shots that didn’t win.

You are absolutely stupid if you post your photos on these sites.

Several times over the last few years I’ve had to take magazines to court for breaching my terms.

They didn’t read my T&Cs

Be warned.

S~~~ like this is exactly why an industry that is only expanding is no longer even profitable for the professionals:

I was speaking with David Mecey, who used to be the staff photographer for playboy back in the day. He was telling me how its even impossible for him to freelance these days based on hack amateurs who underbid him on everything. They got a derogatory name for it, too, they call em GWCs or guys with cameras… Which is another way of framing the whole “you’re just trying to get laid” argument to discredit your professional life as well. But it never really gets used accurately, and i only ever see it flung around by GWCs themselves, with noisy grainy poorly lit photos of some ugly girl just pulling her shirt up. Mecey says the only ones who are making any money with photography these days are the agents, and those assholes who set up “group shoots” for the horny amateurs. You get money by getting people to pay you to build their portfolios. You don’t get paid by having one.