BSHolland

I'm a bit confused about 500px Terms of Service, with regards to licensing & sublicensing. (English is not my mother tongue).

500px claim the "right to sublicense". But only "in connection with...

@R Butler: FlickR's point 9b in their terms of service are photographer-friendly.
So are SOME (very few) photo competitions these days, who say something like this: "by entering this competition...

@R Butler: FlickR's point 9b in their terms of service are actually photographer-friendly.

So are SOME (very few) photo competitions these days, who say something like this: "by entering this...

What I don't understand is: Why did this Instagram thing cause such a stir?

It's not much different to all the others out there. Take Google's T&C for example – same...