Photographer can’t sue a website for embedding her Instagram post, says court

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A court ruled yesterday that Mashable can embed a professional photographer’s photo without breaking copyright law, thanks to Instagram’s terms of service. The New York district court determined that Stephanie Sinclair offered a “valid sublicense” to use the photograph when she posted it publicly on Instagram.
The case stems from a 2016 Mashable post on female photographers, which included Sinclair and embedded an image from her In