How Pinterest Removed All My Pinned Images Inwards Minutes (#1)

This two-part post is close remedies to the work of images appearing on Pinterest without permission
  • Part 1
    • how I discovered exactly how many images from my websites in addition to blogs had been pinned - without my permission - on Pinterest
    • why it's incorrect to pivot without permission
    • how I started to comment on the images inwards question
  • Part 2: [Update - see Takedown: How Pinterest moved fast to take my pinned images (#2) ] how Pinterest removed all my images inside minutes of me serving a "takedown" notice. 
  • how you lot every bit good tin larn your all artistic creations in addition to photographs removed from Pinterest quickly.
I kept wondering how on globe I was e'er going to discovery out whether or non whatsoever of my images were on Pinterest. I couldn't come across whatsoever way of doing it chop-chop in addition to easily via the site itself.

Then an (anonymous) friend told me how - for which many thanks.

How to discovery images pinned from your website or blog

If you lot desire to discovery which of your images receive got been pinned this is what you lot demand to do
  • start alongside this URL http://pinterest.com/source/
  • then add together on to the halt of it the URL of your site minus the http:// eg
    • http://pinterest.com/source/makingamark.blogspot.com/
    • http://pinterest.com/source/www.pastelsandpencils.com
    • http://pinterest.com/source/pastelsandpencils.com
  • put this search term into the pinnacle trace of your browser in addition to a page volition hold out produced of all pins of images from your site
The pins position who pinned the ikon in addition to which of their boards is hosting it.

OK - thus that's when I got a shock.  There were lots of images from my weblog in addition to my website belonging to me in addition to other artists - including images where their usage on my weblog had real specific atmospheric condition attached (the "jump through hoops" images!).

Why it's incorrect to pivot without permission

I'm delighted that people similar my blogs in addition to dearest to a greater extent than or less of the images that I include.  However I am real disappointed at the issue of people who receive got acre either non read or non understood the understanding they signed when becoming members of Pinterest.

Pinterest stipulates that you lot tin ONLY pivot images which are
  • EITHER your ain - in addition to you lot ain the copyright (which agency it's your own wholly master copy creation)
  • OR you lot receive got permission to piece of work or a licence from the copyright owner
The only person who tin create upwardly one's hear whether an ikon tin hold out reproduced in addition to where that ikon tin hold out published is the copyright owner.

Unless the copyright possessor has made it clear (eg through piece of work of creative park or a "Pin away" badge) that it's OK to piece of work their images, you lot but can't create upwardly one's hear for them.

The exclusively exceptions are the "fair use" exemptions.  However my ain thought is that Pinterest is on sinking sands if it tries to combat those.  For lawsuit I had people pinning images from exhibition reviews - spell my stats were non showing whatsoever visits from Pinterest to those exhibition reviews - in addition to for my piece of work to hold out "fair use" the images cannot hold out separated from the review.

All my blogs in addition to websites dot that "all rights reserved on all text in addition to images".  That's because, inwards general, I don't similar seeing my images decorating other people's sites.  I'm fine if people inquire in addition to it's an occasional asking in addition to I often laissez passer on permission.

However I also post a issue of copyright protected images which I larn permission to piece of work from artists/art museums/galleries.  The fact that I receive got permission does non hateful this automatically transfers to the someone who has pinned the ikon on their board.

I'm assuming people are truly ignorant of the procedure of asking permission that I receive got to larn through to larn to a greater extent than or less images on my weblog - in addition to that they would demand to hit ditto earlier pinning in addition to then - every bit per their fellow member understanding alongside Pinterest.  So I'm non pointing fingers - but I receive got decided to arrive real clear that pinning my images is non welcome.  Hence this post - in addition to what I did next.

Then I started to comment on my images

I thought a chip close how to bargain alongside it.  I couldn't come across whatsoever way of contacting the someone who had pinned the image.

I've done "take down" notices earlier in addition to they are tiresome to do, peculiarly if in that place are a lot of images involved.

My friend had already started to travail getting her images dealt alongside in addition to got this answer from Pinterest.

This is what Pinterest says to the someone who pinned the image
I'm Ben, the co-founder of Pinterest. I removed 1 (or more) of your pins today at the asking of a copyright possessor who preferred that their images hit non appear on Pinterest. The photograph is hither for your ain records:
[URL of disputed ikon re an fine art process]
This is a rare - nosotros usually discovery that people are excited to receive got their photos shared alongside a larger audience because it tin drive traffic dorsum to their site. However, when nosotros hit larn requests to take these materials, nosotros travail to honor the wishes of the content possessor efficiently. If you lot receive got whatsoever questions, delight e-mail our Community Manager, Enid (enid@pinterest.com).
I exactly wanted to laissez passer on you lot a heads up. Thanks thus much for using Pinterest. I promise you're enjoying the site! If you lot receive got whatsoever questions, delight don't hesitate to larn inwards touch.
Pinterest DMCA #ID [...]
- Ben in addition to the Pinterest Team
Note that:
  • it assumes the copyright possessor is getting traffic from the fact the ikon has been pinned.  I looked through the pinnacle 50 sources of traffic for my weblog on Google Analytics in addition to Statcounter - in addition to Pinterest was nowhere to hold out seen.  My friend - who had c.100 images pinned without permission - commented every bit follows.  So much for the traffic argument!
I don't fifty-fifty demand all my fingers to count the page views I've been getting from the site a day.
  • There is no reminder that the fellow member should ONLY pivot images they ain or that they receive got permission to piece of work - every bit per the membership agreement.
  • There is absolutely no recognition that upholding the rights of the copyright possessor is non optional.  Pinterest is required yesteryear police to accept downwards the ikon if ownership is proved.
So I decided to laissez passer on people a adventure in addition to comment on my images on the Pinterest Boards of those people who receive got taken images from my weblog without permission.  The thought was that I'd tell them what I had inwards hear in addition to inquire them to take the ikon immediately.  It's what I ordinarily hit in addition to it avoids a lot of wasted fourth dimension in addition to angst.  Mostly people hit these things out of ignorance.

This is what I said - alongside variations on the same theme.
"You receive got non asked for in addition to hit non receive got written permission from me to piece of work this image. Do I demand to serve a DMCA notice?"
Some people got lots of them.......

Endless comments from me on the images from my portfolio website - close lack of permission
Then I began to realise how long this 'simple solution' powerfulness accept to implement - fifty-fifty alongside a copy/paste operation......

Which is when I thought "Stuff This" - in that place has to hold out an easier way.........

See Part 2 for what happened next!  This contains:
  • what I said to Pinterest
  • how many minutes earlier they made the site revisions
  • what they said to me!
More information


See also my ii posts close protecting your images:
Plus I'm logging useful links to to a greater extent than data in addition to advice on Copyright - Resources for Artists | Pinterest: how to position in addition to tackle copyright infringement [Update: site beingness moved to http://www.artbusinessinfo.com/copyright.html]

[UPDATE:  Plus I've created a novel website Pinterest, Copyright in addition to Spam - for Visual Artists & Photographers which I continue updated alongside what's happening on Pinterest in addition to the dissimilar perspectives of those commenting on its functioning - site beingness moved to http://www.artbusinessinfo.com/copyright.html ]

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