This article, found via a LinkedIn discussion revived this topic for me:
http://www.businessinsider.com/pinterest-copyright-issues-lawyer-2012-2
Again, I am not speaking of desirability or otherwise of sharing pictures. I am concerned solely with the legality. Each organisation must decide on its own sharing policy. However, the article does make me believe that this must be a proactive decision, made, and documented on our web sites.
On 22 Feb 2012, at 14:16, Tim Trent wrote:
> Exactly. I was never one whit concerned with desirability or otherwise. Those are management discussions to be held and reflect Museum Policy. I do need to approach our own trustees and ask them to consider our own policy here. And, if my concerns, real concerns, about breaches of copyright and Pinterest (et al) catalyse that conversation for us an many other museums globally that can only be a good thing.
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> The example of Google notwithstanding, I have concerns about Pinterest et al making commercial profit from what is, currently, my (our) copyright content.
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> With that in mind, I'd like to point members at an example of a licence at http://creativecommons.org/choose/ where one may allow or disallow commercial use. My instinct is to disallow it, based on "My content, my money" considerations.
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> Over to you for discussion again!
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> On 22 Feb 2012, at 13:58, Jon Pratty wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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