

A lot of people claim that this was done illegally, but artists really shouldn’t be using websites like Instagram where they grant a royalty-free license to Meta where they are allowed to sell your images to anyone they want.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190101050325/https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870
when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights (like photos or videos) on or in connection with our Service, you hereby grant to us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings).
If this is something we actually want to fix, we’ll need to work with legislators to come up with a law that can’t be worked around by using some Terms of Service that everyone magically agrees to by visiting a site.