Depending on traffic and so on you might not want a service to hot link. I'd say it is preferable for them to cache the images provided they link back.
Then again I'm probably too relaxed about this sort of thing :)
Perhaps I'd start getting nervous if there was a wholesale reposting of many items ( say 25+ or whatever your threshold might be ) without some kind of agreement with the service user or the site itself
Perry
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mike Ellis
Sent: 27 March 2013 12:51
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Subject: Pinterest and non-self-hosted / scraped images
Last one this week. I promise. Maybe.
I was admiring the LACMA Pinterest board - http://pinterest.com/lacma/ - and then started doing some right clicking. Up until now I'd perhaps naively assumed that Pinterest, a bit like Culture Grid, stored only metadata and the embedded images were still hosted on the original sites.
But it turns out they're all cached, and stored on Pinterest itself.
Actually, this doesn't surprise me at all, as it's what anyone would do if they were building a service like that - but I am interested in the fact that museums - who are traditionally worried about "losing" their images are ok with this.
What's the score? Are we ok with this because of the traffic it generates?
Is it ok because these resources all have links through to the original page? Or are we finally accepting that stuff on the web is...on the web...?
I'm asking because I'm in the middle of designing something museum/object related and I'm wondering which route to go down :-)
cheers!
Mike
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