I hate linking to Mashable, but this article was just doing the rounds
on Twitter:
Pinterest Allows Websites to Block Pinning
http://mashable.com/2012/02/20/websites-block-pinterest/
Also from the article:
"Josh Davis of LLsocial.com points out that 99% of the pins on
Pinterest are against the company’s own Terms of Service. Pinterest
states that when users pin items, this indicates they are either the
exclusive owners of the material or someone has granted them access to
re-publish content.
One of the points of “Pinterest Etiquette” also stands to remind users
to credit sources.
Though it is not enforced, Pinterest says, “finding the original
source is always preferable to a secondary source such as Google Image
Search or a blog entry.”
The copyright issues were exacerbated by the website’s huge growth
over the past year, according to Davis. Pinterest, he says, won’t be
the 2012 version Napster — shutdown for copyright infringement in 2001
— because “everyone loves Pinterest” and images. Even if the pins are
not credited, Pinterest drives traffic back to the original source.
Pinterest is moving towards correcting these flaws. Pinterest is
currently following the Digital Millenmium Copyright Act, and will
remove any image that someone claims is violating copyright laws."
Cheers, Mia
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On 21 February 2012 11:06, Tim Trent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I've been looking with some consternation at Pinterest, a site that allows folk to wander at will over the web, "pinning" pictures to their accounts. It's hailed as some sort of social media wonder toy. The picture is grabbed, published on Pinterest, and yes, a back-link to your site is created, a sort of quid pro quo for unpermissioned grabbing of your copyright picture. And yes, t takes the picture and lodges it on Pinterest. http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/152207662376192781_Tt59L5pq_f.jpg is a picture of ours I experimented with myself. Note the url.
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> That made me consider Copyright. In a nutshell, Pintertest relies on users not to break your copyright and relies on your noticing in order to issue take down notices.
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> Today my attention was drawn to this: http://youtu.be/g3bmdE2BrmM (apologies if youtube is blocked in your office, your IT folk really need to get a grip. It talks about code snippets we can add to sites where we disallow pinning.
>
> What are your thoughts on Pinterest, copyright, and your site?
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