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On 21 February 2012 17:04, Mar Dixon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> And related:
> Pinterest moves to address copyright fears with opt-out
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17111041
> I personally don't feel the love with Pinerest but I'm not a graphic
> person. Instagram and Blipfoto just seem like work to me.
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> On 21 February 2012 16:45, Mia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> 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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>> http://twitter.com/mia_out
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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.jpgis a picture of ours I experimented with myself. Note the url.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > 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?
>> >
>> >
>> > Tim Trent - Consultant
>> > Tel: +44 (0)7710 126618
>> > web: ComplianceAndPrivacy.com - where busy executives go to find the
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