14 DAY TRIAL // Janet Jackson is said to be very strict on copyright issues and she might even be keen on taking on social media to make sure that her work isn’t shared without her explicit approval. Her team is taking down videos and photos from her Unbreakable Tour, posted on Instagram, it has emerged.
It’s not just Janet-related content that goes missing without a word of warning (just the email informing users that “a third party reported that the content violates their copyright”), reports say: entire accounts have been deleted.
Both the New York Post and TMZ report that Janet and her legal team are behind the swift action, but Instagram lays the blame on a mysterious “bug” that has already been fixed. It also says that only “repeat offenders” should have had their accounts deleted, so this is Janet’s work after all.
The good news for outraged fans who had promised to boycott the singer for not getting on with the times is that Instagram is in the process of bringing their accounts back online. Whether their Janet content will still be there is yet to be determined.
Janet Jackson has been largely absent from the spotlight for a very long time, so in a way, it makes sense for her to want to have full control of the experience fans have as she’s making her comeback.
“Unbreakable,” her newest album, came out at the beginning of the month and is her first studio release since “Discipline” in 2008. It’s also her first album under her own record label Rhythm Nation Records.
JANET JACKSON ADDS PRAGUE, AMSTERDAM, ANTWERP, COPENHAGEN, STOCKHOLM AND OSLO TO HER RECENTLY ANNOUNCED EUROPEAN LEG OF THE ‘UNBREAKABLE’ WORLD TOUR http://smarturl.it/UnbreakableEurope2 -Janet's Team A photo posted by Janet Jackson (@janetjackson) on Oct 15, 2015 at 3:05am PDT