Pinterest Copyright. Pinterest ("Pinterest") respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its users to do the same. It is Pinterest's policy, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe or are repeatedly charged with infringing the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of others. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, the text of which may be found on the U.S. Copyright Office website at Pinterest will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the Pinterest website (the "Site") that are reported to Pinterest's Designated Copyright Agent, identified in the sample notice below. 1. Deliver this Notice, with all items completed, to Pinterest’s Designated Copyright Agent: NOTE: You may also use the web form that we provide below. Copyright Complaint Form How to File a Counter-Notice 1.
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? Pinterest does not ask users to consider permissions before each "pin," aiming to make the user experience seamless.
Sweeney says Pinterest's business model is the issue, since its "very nature is to encourage the repinning of photos, which encourages users to use them as they like. " Pinterest Places Copyright Responsibility on Users. Amazon.com Takes an Interest in Pinterest's Copyright Woes. Pinterest, the fast-growing online image board, is infamous for its unresponsiveness to ordinary users and big brands alike. Angry content creators, concerned about their photos being copied wholesale to the site by Pinterest users, are looking for somebody to take their complaints.
Now, Amazon.com has reportedly gotten involved. Pinterest, like many Web startups from Foursquare to Path and Zynga, uses Amazon Web Services for Web hosting so it doesn’t have to buy its own servers. After the Artists’ Bill of Rights, a photographers’ lobbying organization, discovered this, the group asked the online retailing giant to take notices of copyright violations under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act regarding Pinterest.
(The DMCA provides a process for Web services to deal with claims of copyright violations by their users; as long as companies comply with the act, they can avoid liability for copyright claims.) However, the photographers may be overstating what Amazon said it will do. Pinterest copying your images - TheOnlyCog » TheOnlyCog. There is huge fuss around newly launched web service Pinterest, the internet pin-board. As you surf the internet you can pin images to your Pinterest board and organise your collection, sharing it with others. Pinterest is currently invite only however it's easy to request an invitation, or get one from a friend already on the service. They have clearly went for the Google school of thought -- launch a product in pseudo closed mode, generate hype and have everyone desperate for an invitation.
I do however have a big problem with Pinterest -- they take a copy of the images and store them! Perhaps what people are not fully appreciating is that when you pin an image to your pin-board the image is actually being uploaded to the Pinterest servers. Is this a problem? This opens up a whole copyright issue surely?
So: How do you even know if your image is on their server? Who knows the answers to these questions. What do you think? UPDATE: Pinterest add Opt-Out. It’s Not Just Pinterest RE: Copyright & Legal Issues. 10 Pinterest Infographics: Visual Explanations for a Visual Social Network. As of Q1 of 2012, Pinterest had generated 11.7 million unique visitors. And here at HubSpot, our main website receives 1,000+ monthly visits through referral traffic from Pinterest -- and all we do is pin some content! Everyone keeps talking about how Pinterest will grow to become one of the largest used social networks, but truth is, it already is.
As a social network that is built around one of the hottest trends in social media today -- visual content -- it's no wonder Pinterest is thriving. But in order to reap business benefits from Pinterest, a solid understanding of how the social network works is important. What Is Pinterest? First things first: let's review the basics to ensure we're all on the same page. Source: Infographic Labs Who Uses Pinterest? As marketers, it's important to understand the audience of each social network we use. Source: Modea The Rise of Pinterest Before we continue, let's briefly review the rise of Pinterest as a social network. Source: Statista Source: Monetate.