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March 22, 2012 09:13 pm GMT

For Pinterest, Revenue Will Turn Copyright Questions Into Real Problems

Screen shot 2012-03-20 at 3.16.51 PMGetty Images' CEO Jonathan Klein is not concerned about people playing with Getty photos, teenagers using them for school projects, and people putting them up on their personal blogs -- or, at the moment, even Pinterest. So when does Getty snap into action? The moment that a website starts running ads alongside those images. As Klein told me in the interview embedded above:
"We're comfortable with people using our images to build traffic. The point in time when they have a business model, they have to have some sort of license."
That is why Pinterest has a big problem on its hands at the moment. The site has certainly built immense traffic by allowing people to share and collect as many photos as they want -- many of which inevitably don't belong to them, in the legal sense.

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