Lawyer assesses Pinterest's copyright situation. In All This Talk Of Pinterest And Copyright, The Fact That It's Driving Massive Traffic Seems Important. We already wrote about the pointless copyright freakout that some are having about Pinterest -- and since then, not a day has gone by without someone pointing us to yet another hysterical article by someone about how Pinterest is some copyright horror show. Lately there have been a bunch of... silly... stories about the specifics of Pinterest's terms of service. However, in all of this debate, one rather important point seems to have been left out of most of the discussions: Pinterest drives a ton of traffic back to original sources. For all the concerns about how Pinterest is infringing on various sites and copyright holders, the reality appears to be that it drives so much traffic that it's difficult to understand why people are complaining: Beginning this summer, Pinterest became the top social referrer for marthastewartweddings.com and marthastewart.com, sending more traffic to both properties than Facebook and Twitter combined.
Pinterest - Our View of this Project. PDF | Print | E-mail Friday, 24 February 2012 13:29 Pinterest - three reasons for not using it There has been a vast amount of internet chatter about Pinterest of late in which both those in favour of and against this latest user driven content website have given their views. We have been asked recently for our own opinions. While our posts on social media should have made clear that we have a considerable number of concerns about this site we have decided to publish three specific reasons for not using it, and for blocking its access to your own website.
Pinterest is simply another website with a business model which expects to profit from the use of others content. All Metadata is Stripped The Artists' Bill of Rights Campaign is a supporter of the Embedded Metadata Manifesto and we are listed as one of the many organisations which supports their aims. Note in particular principles 4 and 5. With what possible intent do organisations such as Pinterest delete copyright metadata? Conclusion. Pinterest and copyright.
Pinterest, in case you have not heard, is the latest social network. It is sort of like Tumbler without the social angst and hipster look. Some have described it as “Facebook for women” (because everyone knows that no woman uses FB). Time magazine tells us that “Men Are from Google+, Women Are from Pinterest“. I even saw it described on Twitter as “World of Warcraft for women”, or even “Reddit for girls”.
The whole point of Pinterest is that people create boards and pin pictures on them. First, let’s analyse what Pinterest really does from a technical standpoint. Pinterest is a US-based company, and as far as I could tell with a simple traceroute, all of their content seems to be hosted in the United States. While the above would appear to clear Pinterest from DMCA concerns, one lawyer specialising in DMCA issues has made some detailed recommendations on how Pinterest could improve their DMCA compliance.
“Google’s use of thumbnails is highly transformative. [...] Copyright Law a Story From the Ancient Times. ALl rights open to share and credit the happy author Update 07/01/2013: Pinterest sued over copyright infringement Yesterday, on my way comuting home, I could catch up with one of my favorites podcasts, This Week in Law by Denise Howell. This #154 episod’s ‘Persons of Pinterest‘ guests were Carolyn Wright and Connie Mableson with th usual Evan Brown An interesting discussion between US specialists attorneys about the new social media platform Pinterest. I call it social Media by facility. They autoproclame themselves as “A content sharing service that allows members to “pin” images, videos and other objects to their pinboard.
Also includes standard social networking features …” DMCA, Intellectual Property, Fair use defence, infringement of copyright, copying, purpose of publishing, the aim of using, the damage caused, transformative argument to benefit from the fair use defence, …. are some of the concepts discussed by these US law specialists. Shouldn’t we look at where the damage is ?
For Those Freaking Out Over Pinterest's Terms Of Service, Have You Stopped Using Every Other Internet Site Yet? Video Embedding Site Isn't a Contributory Copyright Infringer, But Sideloading Could Be Direct Infringement--Flava Works v. myVidster. By Eric Goldman Flava Works, Inc. v. Gunter, No. 11-3190 (7th Cir. Aug. 2, 2012).
Prior blog post on district court ruling. myVidster is a “social bookmarking” website that allows users to link to videos hosted elsewhere on the Internet and thereby embed the videos in myVidster’s user interface. Today, myVidster scored a big win at the Seventh Circuit, which held that it had not committed contributory infringement by allowing users to embed infringing videos via myVidster. While the opinion offers good news for myVidster and possibly other linking websites, it does raise a concern about sideloading, i.e., grabbing a remote file that a user links to and making an archive copy of that file for further delivery. Judge Posner drafted this opinion, which means that (as usual for him) it reads like a barely edited first-draft.
Posner does separately address the 106 public performance right, but I found the opinion about that especially inscrutable. This opinion is not an instant classic. Pinterest and Copyright: So Why All the Fuss? | Aaron Sanders Law. Part 2 (of 2): Welcome Nice Pinterest Users to the Bizarro World of Copyright and the Internet! Last time, we took stock of the recent kerfuffle about Pinterest, copyright and Pinterest’s Terms of Use (“TOU”), and we even looked at those horrifying, normal TOU.
In this post, I want to step back and answer two basic questions: Should Pinterest users really worry about being sued for copyright infringement? And is there really something to all this fuss? I’ll preface the rest of what I’m going to say by emphasizing that, although I’m a lawyer in this field (i.e., copyright and the internet), I’m not giving you legal advice here. A lot of this is reasoned speculation, but I could turn out to be wrong, and I don’t know your specific legal situation and speak to it.
OK? Is Someone Really Going to Sue Nice Pinterest Users? How much should you worry if you’re using Pinterest? Besides, if we learned anything from the RIAA’s campaign, it’s that it did more harm than good. So What’s All the Fuss? Why deleting your Pinterest boards over copyright concerns is an overreaction – Lex Technologiae. Kirsten Kowalski of DDK Portraits wrote a blog post about why she “tearfully” took down her Pinterest boards. The reason she gave was her concern over copyright infringement and the liability she felt she had opened up.
Her blog post went viral, including an article on the ABA Journal about it, in part (I believe) because she is a lawyer. (Full disclosure: She graduated from my legal alma mater, Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, AL, at least 5 years before I did.) Since the post I have received a number of questions from friends about whether Pinterest is copyright infringement and whether they can be sued because of their Pinterest boards. The short answer I have given to my friends is that Ms. Pinterest doesn’t commit copyright infringement, people commit copyright infringement First, let’s look at what you do with Pinterest. Pinterest is not per-se copyright infringement This is not copyright infringement on its own. Pinterest can be used for copyright infringement Ms. Ms. Ms.
STUDY: Pinterest Tops Facebook In Shopping Engagement. As Facebook enters the ecommerce game, a new study shows that it still has work to do to catch up with Pinterest. According to statistics from Bizrate Insights, 69 percent of online consumers who visit Pinterest have found an item they’ve bought or wanted to buy, compared with 40 percent of Facebook users.
Pinterest has proven to be a more reliable ecommerce conversation starter than the social network. The study also found that an overwhelming percentage of people visit Pinterest over Facebook to get purchasing inspiration: 70 percent of people said they went to Pinterest for this purpose, compared with only 17 percent for Facebook. Other interesting statistics: Naturally, Facebook and its 1 billion members still dominate Pinterest in numbers. Bizrate Insights noted that 63 percent of online consumers have Facebook and 15 percent have Pinterest accounts. Worries Over Copyright Infringement Kept Warren's Senate Campaign Off Pinterest. Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren's 2012 campaign stayed away from the social image-sharing platform Pinterest because the campaign's new media director feared that the platform could be shut down by copyright infringement claims.
"The reason I didn’t create a Pinterest account for Elizabeth was because there’s been a lot of legal talk about whether the content on Pinterest is legal or not," said Lauren Miller, the Warren campaign's new media director. "There’s been talk about shutting down Pinterest. From my perspective, with such a limited amount of time to get everything done, I didn’t want to put a lot of effort into setting up a Pinterest account if Pinterest was going to get shut down two months into my campaign. " "It would have been a great target audience – women were a big audience we were trying to target in our campaign," she added. Another element that factored into Miller's calculations was time. Pinterest: We don't want to sell your images, never have.
It invoked the ire of content owners and put many users off the service but today Pinterest has announced that it will no longer have the right the sell images users place on the site. In an early morning email sent today Pinterest outlined a number of changes to its Terms of Service (ToS), which will come into force on April 6, 2012. The most significant of these is the change to the site’s confusing usage conditions. Users and copyright holders had been claiming that the old ToS was out of step with copyright conventions. It created a odd situation where if one Pinterest user posted an image copyrighted to a third party they were, according to Pinterest’s ToS, granting the site permission to sell that third party’s image. In the email, Pinterest explained that “selling content was never our intention” and that the specific Term of Service was included because they “used a standard set of Terms” when they set up the site.
With the new ToS Pinterest is on somewhat of a charm offensive. Pinterest as a Tool: Applications in Academic Libraries and Higher Education | Hansen | Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. Abstract Pinterest, a pinboard-style social photo-sharing website, has become a popular site for many individuals who collect images that help them plan, organize, and explore any topic of interest.
Launched in March 2010, Pinterest now has over 10 million users and is continuing to grow. Libraries and educators are starting to explore this new type of social media and how it can be used to connect with and inspire their patrons and students. This article will look at how the University of Regina Library is currently using Pinterest to engage and interact with the University community. This social tool has appealed not only to librarians but educators as well. After developing a Pinterest account for the library, a list of best practices were created. Keywords Pinterest; academic libraries; higher education; copyright; social media technologies. Copyright Infringement and the Second Generation of Social Media Websites: Why Pinterest Users Should Be Protected from Copyright Infringement by the Fair Use Defense by Craig Carpenter.
Early social media platforms have evolved into a new generation of online information-sharing. The focus of social media is shifting from user-created content to user-found content. This trend is shared by new versions of the original social media powerhouses and recent social media start-ups. For example, both Twitter and Facebook have made it easier for users to integrate photos and videos from the internet into their profiles.
Additionally, new “second generation” social media platforms have expanded on this trend by focusing almost entirely on found content — especially pictures. The most recent product of this social media evolution is Pinterest. Recently there has been concern that this emphasis on found content could expose users of second generation social media websites to significant legal liability. This paper will evaluate the potential copyright infringement liability for Pinterest users. ARTICLE: Copyright and Social Media: A Preliminary Case Study of Pinterest. I. Introduction: Where Social Media and Copyright Meet Social media fills our lives in ways unimaginable less than a decade ago. 1 For the whole of copyright history since the invention of the printing press, we were static observers of the world - consumers of culture.
Now, we have now become active participants in making and distributing culture. 2 It is a user-generated revolution of proportions we have only begun to explore. 3 In short, Web 2.0 is thrilling and, for copyright law, presents unprecedented questions and changes. 4 "Web 2.0" was a term coined by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty to describe a new post-dot-com-bubble phenomenon. 5 The Internet had suddenly become more interactive rather than static. Is Pinterest a Haven for Copyright Violations? Pinterest's terms of use state that if you upload content to Pinterest, then you're giving Pinterest permission to distribute, sublicense, and sell that content: By making available any Member Content through the Site, Application or Services, you hereby grant to Cold Brew Labs a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, adapt, *modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, view, and otherwise exploit such Member Content only on, through or by means of the Site, Application or Services.
*This allows Pinterest to justify replacing affiliate links with ones that earn money for Pinterest. Furthermore, Pinterest provides an "embed" button next to every pinned image so that it may be displayed on anyone's blog or website. Reread that sentence and think about what that means. THAT is the real copyright threat from Pinterest. What You Should Know About Pinterest and Copyright. Content-sharing site Pinterest has been surging in popularity. The bigger it gets, the more responsibility it has to ensure that copyrighted content doesn't show up on its site. Less than a week after Pinterest offered an opt-out code for websites seeking to protect their content, Flickr is adopting that code to help users protect copyrighted images on its photo-sharing network. If you're fitting Pinterest into your company's marketing plans, or seeking to protect your content from eager Pinterest users, what should you do?
Pinterest: A Copyright Nightmare? How is sharing a picture on Pinterest any different than on other social networks? Both Twitter and Facebook encourage sharing personal experiences and photos rather than content created by someone else, says Deborah Sweeney, intellectual property lawyer and and CEO of MyCorporation. Pinterest does not ask users to consider permissions before each "pin," aiming to make the user experience seamless. Pinterest's 'Nopin' Code. Lawyer assesses Pinterest's copyright situation.
Pinterest addresses copyright concerns. A Lawyer Who Is Also A Photographer Just Deleted All Her Pinterest Boards Out Of Fear. Pinterest Problem: Users May Run Into Copyright Issues. Pinterest continues to address copyright issues and adds Flickr attribution. Copyright. Pinterest Copyright Issues Could Spur Changes To Terms Of Use And ‘Pin Etiquette’ The Copyright Question: How to Protect Yourself on Pinterest. A Timeline of Intellectual Property Issues on Pinterest. Delicious. In Shift, Pinterest Says to Pin Your Own Stuff. Is Pinterest the Next Napster? Pinterest / Home. This WEEK in LAW 154.