The Instagram leader demystifies the author's right to an apocalypse on copyright while its broadcast reaches the highest levels of government

If you're following a baby boom on Instagram, you've probably seen the latest viral hoax warn of the apocalypse of copyright.

Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, Julia, Julia Roberts, Julianne Moore and Rob Lowe are just a few of the personalities who transmitted the message to their millions of followers

The same is a screen capture of a warning regarding the change of privacy policy of Instagram. "Do not forget that tomorrow begins the new Instagram rule where they can use your photos. Do not forget the deadline today! ", Says the phony alert. "It can be used in litigation against you. Everything you have already posted becomes public from today … "

According to the badly written note, all you have to do to save yourself, is to post this note, which tells Instagram that it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute or take any other action against me.

This is the same type of hoax that has already circulated on Facebook several times. Previous iterations have also referred to a non-existent "Channel 13 News" report.

After the meme spread quickly this week, Instagram's leader, Adam Mosseri, tried to reassure the deceived.

"Watch out!", Commented Mosseri in his Instagram account. "If you see a meme stating that Instagram is changing its rules tomorrow, it's not true."

"There is no truth in this article," said Gizmodo spokeswoman Stephanie Otway.

In fact, there is a nugget of truth in the mail. The conditions of use of Instagram indicate that the company does not own the content of the users, but when people post on Instagram, they grant it a "world-wide, non-exclusive royalty-free license." , transferable, licensed, to host, use, distribute, modify, perform, copy, perform or publicly display, translate and create derivative works of your content »

This legal jargon means that Instagram can use your content as you please without asking permission. It just does not have the full ownership of your work.

BuzzFeed and Huffington Post have especially criticized Rick Perry for being easily fooled when he controlled the country's nuclear weapons. It is disturbing, but it is derisory compared to social media use of social media to share deceptive racist videos and conspiracy theories.