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March 21, 2012 02:47 am GMT
Pinterest has had trouble brewing for a while over what some people say are frequent copyright violations that happen when users 'pin' photos on the site without permission from the photo's owner. But as one photographer/lawyer/Pinterest user recently discovered, the copyright problem at Pinterest is even more complicated than that.Kirsten Kowalski blew the whistle on this conflict in a blog post that went viral late last month that prompted a phone call from Pinterest co-founder Ben Silbermann. As Kowalski explains in the interview embedded above, Pinterest's community standards, or "Pin Etiquette," explicitly discourages users from self-promoting by "pinning" photos they have taken themselves. But at the same time, Pinterest's Terms of Use actually forbids users from pinning any photo that does not belong to him or her, and states that users is subject to any legal action that is taken from the copyright or trademark holder. Once she discovered this, she promptly deleted all her Pinterest boards that contained photos taken by anyone other than herself -- the risk of potential litigation was all too real.
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Copyright Issues Could Spur Changes To Pinterests Terms Of Use And Pin Etiquette
Pinterest has had trouble brewing for a while over what some people say are frequent copyright violations that happen when users 'pin' photos on the site without permission from the photo's owner. But as one photographer/lawyer/Pinterest user recently discovered, the copyright problem at Pinterest is even more complicated than that.Kirsten Kowalski blew the whistle on this conflict in a blog post that went viral late last month that prompted a phone call from Pinterest co-founder Ben Silbermann. As Kowalski explains in the interview embedded above, Pinterest's community standards, or "Pin Etiquette," explicitly discourages users from self-promoting by "pinning" photos they have taken themselves. But at the same time, Pinterest's Terms of Use actually forbids users from pinning any photo that does not belong to him or her, and states that users is subject to any legal action that is taken from the copyright or trademark holder. Once she discovered this, she promptly deleted all her Pinterest boards that contained photos taken by anyone other than herself -- the risk of potential litigation was all too real. Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/oKvnuqy-7F0/
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