Tim's hit the nail on the head here. The main point he raised initially, as far as I'm concerned, is not about the desirability of opening up collections and images online, it's about the somewhat catch-all end-user licence suggested in the Pinterest Ts and Cs. I think all of us would applaud the notion of freeing up collection images [or whatever] online.
Augmenting his initial point, I'm wondering if there's a pattern emerging here, amongst social media start-ups like Pinterest and bigger players like Apple, too. Don't forget the rumpus that emerged when Apple recently re-launched iBooks; this had a similar end-user licence staking all sorts of claims over individual user's original content.
I can imagine that social media start-ups are beginning to wake up to the idea that crowd-based content generating projects are constantly creating assets that have potential balance sheet value, assuming the site owners can wrest some of the IP from participants along the way. Anyone else seeing it this way?
JP
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