Pinterest: How To Preclude Your Blogger Images From Beingness Pinned

This postal service explains how to stop images on your Blogger spider web log from beingness pinned to a Pinterest site - yesteryear inserting a meta tag inwards your Blogger template. 

I discovered that Pinterest has responded to the real many howls of "theft!" yesteryear those concerned virtually copyright infringement.  I know I was real concerned when I saw how people were pinning alongside blatant disregard for the possessor of the epitome as well as their copyright restrictions on role or publication on other sites.  (At the terminate of this postal service are references to several spider web log posts as well as articles which item why it is a problem)

Pinterest has right away introduced a slice of code which prevents images on your website or spider web log from beingness pinned.

This is what they right away say inwards  NEW assist item  What if I don't desire images from my site to live pinned?
What if I don't desire images from my site to live pinned?
We stimulate got a pocket-sized slice of code you lot tin add together to the caput of whatever page on your site:
<meta name="pinterest" content="nopin" />
When a user tries to pivot from your site, they volition run into this message:
"This site doesn't permit pinning to Pinterest. Please contact the possessor alongside whatever questions. Thanks for visiting!"
I tried it - as well as it works.

So this is what you lot stimulate got to arrive at to install the code on Blogger.


1.  Old Blogger - Go to the "Design" Tab inwards Blogger.  In New Blogger, select the edit card as well as and then select template.  Alternatively, spell logged in, select the Design dominance - transcend correct of page.  (Note that the template - inwards html - looks the same which always road you lot larn to it)
2.  Select the "Edit html" tab.  This is what it looks like (I'm using i from a 'dead' blog)

This is what you lot run into when you lot desire to edit Blogger Template html
3.  Before editing your template, you lot may desire to SHOULD salvage a re-create of it. Download Full Template.  
4.  Copy the code from Pinterest
5.  Insert the code inwards the caput department of the spider web log - that's the fleck higher upwardly the ======== lines.  Below you lot tin run into an epitome of where I pose it - merely afterwards the <head> code


6.  SAVE the template
7.  Now drive to add together an epitome from the spider web log to Pinterest (you'll demand an concern human relationship to live able to arrive at this).
  • Select Add+
  • Insert the URL for a spider web log postal service into the Add+ window
  • You volition as well as then run into this message! :)
Pinterest tells the pinner that pinning isn't allowed
It's uncomplicated as well as quick - so long every bit you lot stimulate got access to the html code of your website.

If you lot don't I advise that you lot write as well as inquire the webhost back upwardly squad how best to implement the pinterest code for your website.

Can I likewise advise you lot SHARE this postal service alongside your friends who stimulate got Blogger blogs.  They may non bothered - but in that place i time to a greater extent than they may prefer to protect their artwork as well as non stimulate got it taken from them for costless as well as without asking.

Articles expressing concern virtually copyright as well as Pinterest

Why is this necessary?

Matthew Caines at the Guardian explains What Pinterest agency for the arts - as well as and then finishes yesteryear explaining the work re copyright (my bold)
The concluding concern surrounds copyright, namely the legal ambiguity around what tin as well as can't live shared. Josh Davis at LLsocial points out that 99% of pins are probable to live inwards violation of Pinterest's own terms of service, which terra firma that when a user pins an epitome it agency they stimulate got been granted access to arrive at thence or ain the item personally
Read Josh Davies' post Is Pinterest the novel Napster? on LLsocial.com
Like Napster, most of the “content” is genuinely posted inwards violation of both the police delineate every bit good every bit Pinterest’s ain price of service.

Here's i article from Forbes Magazine which tells you lot why as well as likewise highlights  other articles expressing concern - Pinterest Introduces "NOPIN" to Counter Copyright Concerns - Forbes
Pinterest’s blowout success has surfaced proposition that its service is a facilitator of copyright infringement. Here are some intelligence articles cry for how legit is “Pin it”:
The lastly postal service is yesteryear Ellen Brundige (aka Greekgeek) who's a swell rootage of expertise around all things web-related.  As her hubpage Is Pinterest a Haven for Copyright Violations? (and arrive at read the comments!) indicates
Pinning Violates Image Licenses
Online bloggers, writers, artists as well as photographers stimulate got a simple, legal way of benefitting from their images posted on the web: licensing.

An epitome license agency the copyright possessor gives permission for a specific, limited use, inwards telephone substitution for something inwards return.

  • With stock photos, the "something" is money: people pay to role good-quality photos to brand their websites or publications await great.
  • With Creative Commons licensing, the "something" is credit as well as a link back.A backlink is a valuable commodity: it non entirely sends traffic to the creative mortal or photographer's website; it likewise tin assist a site rank amend inwards search engines.
  • With affiliate marketing programs similar Allposters.com or Zazzle.com, the affiliate may role pocket-sized copyrighted images similar motion-picture exhibit posters or artwork inwards telephone substitution for a link dorsum to the shop selling the poster or art.
Pinning a licensed photograph cuts through these legal, mutually beneficial agreements similar a machete through a spiderweb.
Benn Silbermann is the founder of Pinterest.  On Mon he wrote a postal service on the Pinterest blog "Oh, How Pinteresting!" about Growing Up which states their seat on copyright - as well as how they honor it, assist people to study it - as well as (this is NEW!) insert code into their websites to preclude images from beingness copied.
We decided to showtime today yesteryear talking virtually copyright.

As a company, nosotros attention virtually respecting the rights of copyright holders. We operate difficult to follow the DMCA physical care for for acting speedily when nosotros have notices of claimed copyright infringement. We stimulate got a shape for reporting claims of copyright violations on our site here. Every pivot has a flag to brand reporting easier. We likewise know that copyright is a complicated as well as nuanced number as well as nosotros stimulate got knowledgeable people who are providing lots of guidance.

At the same time, nosotros sympathize as well as honor that sometimes site owners arrive at non desire whatever of their fabric pinned. For these folks, nosotros furnish a snippet of code that tin live added to whatever website. You tin discovery it inwards our help section.
PS  I know I'm supposed to live producing botanical fine art - but things are non going good due to eyes that don't operate similar they used to as well as a manus which can't traveling steal similar it used to!  Two pieces produced as well as ii pieces rejected yesteryear me. I may terminate upwardly non submitting whatever artwork side yesteryear side Monday!


PPS Thanks to Nicole Caulfield for spotting the Forbes Magazine article shared yesteryear somebody on Facebook.

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