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Takedown: How Pinterest Moved Fast To Take My Pinned Images (#2)

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Do you lot desire to acquire your images removed from Pinterest speedily as well as easily?  If you lot hit read on.

This is Part 2 of my post virtually remedies to the job of images appearing on Pinterest without permission.

In yesterday's post - How Pinterest removed all my pinned images inwards minutes (#1) - I found how to
  • identify exactly how many images 
  • reviewed why it is incorrect to pivot without permission
  • started to comment on the images inwards interrogation - but got frustrated amongst the notion of doing each icon ane past times one
I decided the best way to acquire an instant termination would last to endeavour for a site-wide solution.  Not alone that I decided to brand certain that the have got downwardly notice applied to all 6 sites on which I've already implemented the meta tag which prevents images from beingness pinned.

The argue for reading on is I succeeded inwards beingness able to acquire images removed from all 6 sites. I had most images off the site inwards one-half an hr as well as the virtually all the residuum inside the hr (just ane outstanding to date).

What it way is that:

  • you don't demand to contact the fellow member who pinned the image
  • you don't demand to hit endless takedown notices for ane icon at a time.
  • this is the speedy version!

First study the Pinterest Copyright page

I studied the How to Report a Copyright Infringement page on Pinterest.  This states
In accordance amongst the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, the text of which may last found on the USA Copyright Office website at http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf, Pinterest volition respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the Pinterest website (the "Site") that are reported to Pinterest’s Designated Copyright Agent, identified inwards the sample notice below
This page provides a numbered procedure to follow.  I didn't follow all of it because I've done this several times as well as know pretty much what they demand to know to have got action.  I explicate this inwards my annotations to my electronic mail missive of the alphabet below

Next draft a Takedown Notice

Let me explicate a niggling fleck virtually the background behind the missive of the alphabet I sent them earlier you lot read it.  I've been issuing takedown notices for virtually 6 years as well as during that fourth dimension I've learned a few things.  One is that you lot demand to last real assertive as well as real firm.  If you lot know you're correct you lot demand to explicate matters clearly to the host - as well as so tell them how long they have got to have got activeness - as well as what you'll hit if they don't.

To last honest it exactly saves time.

the icon referenced inwards the email
The consider of the Winter Garden from the Orangery at Dunham Massey
11" x 16", pen as well as sepia ink as well as coloured pencils inwards Moleskine Folio Sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell
Here's the electronic mail I sent to Pinterest.  My annotations of the missive of the alphabet are in green.  I always keep inwards take heed that somebody on their website is doing incorrect as well as I am TELLING them to follow the law.

Bottom business - this is NOT  a asking - it's a factual disceptation of the wrongdoing as well as an pedagogy every bit to what they must hit every bit a result.

[UPDATE:  The electronic mail address for all letters similar this is copyright@pinterest.com - I was so certain I'd already included this information - but acre not!]

This link /search?q=how-pinterest-removed-all-my-pinned (This provides an illustration icon as well as provides the show of where it came from)

The work of it on your site fulfils none of the "fair use" exemptions for copyright purposes. It is beingness used for decoration. (This addresses the "fair use" issue)

No permission has been sought for its use. I banknote that way the activeness past times your fellow member contravenes the membership agreement.  (The Pinterest membership disceptation says that all images pinned to the site must belong to the Pinterest fellow member or they must have got permission to work it.)

Use of copyright protected cloth without permission is illegal nether copyright laws.

My Travels amongst a Sketchbook weblog states (this is my disceptation of my copyright notice on this blog.  Do you lot have got ane on your website or blog? Have you lot given due alert to anybody wanting to re-create your images? You don't truly demand to have got ane if you're British every bit our police push clit automatically gives u copyright over everything nosotros hit without whatsoever demand to register.)
Please hit non re-create without permission
Important Note
Copyright is reserved on all images as well as text generated past times Katherine Tyrrell.
Copyright is retained past times originator for all images as well as text generated past times others as well as used amongst their permission or inside the context of 'fair use'.
Contact me if you lot desire to brand a re-create as well as work whatsoever text or images for publication elsewhere.
All spam blogs volition last reported for copyright infringement.
Copying for commercial work is acre of study to license as well as a fee.
"I hereby state that I have got a skilful organized faith belief that the disputed work of the copyrighted cloth or reference or link to such cloth is non authorized past times the copyright owner, its agent, or the police push clit (e.g., every bit a fair use)." "I hereby state that the data inwards this Notice is accurate and, nether penalization of perjury, that I am the possessor of the copyright or of an exclusive correct nether the copyright that is allegedly infringed." (This is the paragraph that Pinterest enquire you lot to state to them.  I amended real slightly to reverberate what I was complaining about)

I alive inwards the UK. My telephone number is ex-directory as well as my mailing address is private. Both volition stay so. You tin sack contact me on this electronic mail address. (They asked for personal data which inwards my thought they did non need.  I never give my personal data to people who are careless.)

This is exactly ane of several copyright infringements relating to my ain images as well as images which I have got written permission to work on my sites. (This indicates this notice is non exactly virtually ane image.  I didn't count as well as state the number of images involved - but I could have got done)

Below is a listing of all the websites which your website members are banned from (the meta tag is inwards house on all these sites) (This is a listing of all my sites - you lot may alone demand to highlight one)
Please ensure that whatsoever images obtained from whatsoever of the abovementioned websites - as well as pinned to your website - are removed from your site inside the side past times side vii days. (Note I've given them a reasonable amount of fourth dimension to have got the images downwardly given the number of sites I've notified.  This is truly to a greater extent than appropriate to a ane somebody site than ane which has a squad of evolution staff)

Please banknote it is also my practise to study all websites which infringe my copyright to both Google as well as your host IP if the offending cloth is non removed. (Been there, done that as well as got the T shirt - as well as to a greater extent than than once.  This judgement has impact.  Google tin sack de-index their site.  Their host IP requires them to human activeness lawfully as well as tin sack kick them off their server.  This is a large deal.)

I volition also start calculating the licence fee for the work of the diverse copyright protected images on your site every bit permission has at no fourth dimension been sought past times anybody for the work of these images from my websites as well as blogs (and would inwards whatsoever instance last refused). (If you lot have got an established rail tape inwards selling artwork and reproductions you lot have got a ground for charging for the licence they hit non have)

I have got the #3 fine art weblog inwards the U.K. as well as volition last highlighting your response to this takedown notice as well as the length of fourth dimension it takes if it is non immediate. (not something everybody tin sack say - but inwards the context of my blogs it's worth a mention.  It's also easily verifiable past times looking at my blog!  This disceptation has PR clout!)

Katherine Tyrrell

Artist as well as author Katherine Tyrrell draws as well as writes virtually fine art for artists as well as fine art lovers
Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark is #3 inwards the pinnacle 25 fine art blogs inwards the UK
1.3 ane one m thousand visitors as well as counting......
In summary

So inwards a nutshell, at 23.05 on 29 Feb 2012, I sent an electronic mail to Pinterest.  This is what it did:
  • referenced an offending image
  • identified my copyright disceptation for that site
  • asserted my rights over my images
  • identified all the relevant site URLs where I desire a site-wide approach to last implemented
  • stated what I desire to plow over off as well as past times when (I am non making a asking - I'm telling them what they must hit inwards law)
  • advised them what activeness I volition have got if they have got no activeness - specifically
    • notify Google as well as IP host - either of which could effectively  take them off line
    • invoice them for the terms of the work of my images on their website
    • identify how they respond to the Notice inwards a weblog post which has rather a lot of readers
How Pinterest responded

At 23.39 (GMT) on 29 Feb 2012 a Pinterest fellow member of staff responded.  That's a gap of less than 35 minutes.  Virtually all my images had already been removed from the site. (I'll explicate why it wasn't all images inwards a minute)

This is the electronic mail missive of the alphabet I got back.  It addressed the job as well as told me that they had resolved it.  It also told me how I could monitor my sites.  It was a real skilful response.

I'd at nowadays hold back that all people notifying Pinterest of similar problems volition acquire a similar response.  Please experience gratis to quote my experience if you lot experience you're getting the "runaround" - as well as acquire out a banknote on this post.
Hi Katherine -

You of late notified Pinterest of a belief that copyrighted cloth was beingness made available through Pinterest.com without authorization. We confirm that nosotros have got removed such material.
We've removed the pivot you lot cited, every bit good every bit all pins/re-pins from the domains you lot listed. You tin sack monitor a whole site using the next URL convention:

http://pinterest.com/source/makingamark.blogspot.com/

Please experience gratis to achieve out to me personally amongst whatsoever questions.
Best,
--
Aaron Franklin
Pinterest - Community Specialist
http://pinterest.com/aaronfranklin/
I so responded every bit follows
Many cheers Aaron for the extremely prompt response. It's appreciated as well as volition last duly noted inwards my weblog post.

I'll also last making my subscribers as well as other fine art bloggers of aware of this procedure re websites. It's most helpful.

Can I advise you lot introduce:

  • a reminder to people of what the membership understanding states re ownership or permission BEFORE they complete the procedure of pinning (ie no range for ignorance or silliness)
  • you render a "dummies guide to copyright" on your site. I'm constantly amazed at the number of people who recall it's OK to pivot somebody else's go fifty-fifty when the website states all correct reserved.  People demand to last real clear as well as continuously reminded that the fact that you lot tin sack run into an icon on the meshing does non hateful it is inwards earth domain.
I recall the thought behind the site is interesting. I recall it could go a skilful site so long every bit it diligently addresses the copyright issues.

The thing is I shouldn't have got to hit anything to preserve my images. The onus is wholly on you lot to preclude your site beingness inwards whatsoever way characterised every bit encouraging copyright infringement every bit it is at present. I believe in that place are some useful courtroom cases which render precedent which you lot demand to last aware of

By you lot I of course of pedagogy hateful the corporate "you" ie Pinterest

Katherine Tyrrell
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 niggling piece afterward I went through as well as checked every domain - as well as I was annoyed to honor a lot of images were all the same nowadays on the site So I wrote some other missive of the alphabet
Removed from every domain? See http://pinterest.com/source/art-landscape.blogspot.com/ Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 brace of examples - I have got a major job amongst images where:

Am I going to have got to cheque every unmarried domain every unmarried day?

None of my sites allow ANY images to last pinned.

The side past times side missive of the alphabet goes straight off to Google as well as your IP host.

Katherine Tyrrell

which was so followed upward past times some other electronic mail which queried the batch of images relating to http://pinterest.com/source/pastelsandpencils.com/

It turned out they didn't appreciate that www.pastelsandpencils.com is dissimilar to pastelsandpencils.com. They'd tackled the get-go as well as non done anything virtually the second. Aaron's response apologised for the continuing job
Hi Katherine -

My apologies - I did a thorough sweep of the other sites, but exactly learned that URLs starting amongst www demand to last truncated to search, e.g. http://pinterest.com/source/pastelsandpencils.com/

I've removed the remaining pins - cheers for double checking my work. The pins were pinned earlier you lot added the code to your site. Now that you lot have got the code on the sites, you lot hit non demand to monitor activity from these sites.

I exactly desire to add together that nosotros are aware of confusion amongst our terms of service, as well as are working on making our terms of work - as well as our intentions - to a greater extent than clear. Rest assured, nosotros are listening as well as putting the necessary pieces inwards house every bit nosotros grow. We are committed to making our passion for content regain beneficial to everyone, including both users as well as the creators of the content nosotros honey so much.

Best,
Aaron Franklin Pinterest - Community Specialist
http://pinterest.com/aaronfranklin/
Moral of the storey - cheque all URLs thoroughly!

 My impression is of a squad of people who know they've cocked upward  - banknote the admission of the problems beingness experienced inwards the concluding paragraph - and they are trying to remedy the situation.

 I sympathise that in that place are moves afoot to modify the way Pinterest plant so that the terms of work are a lot to a greater extent than transparent as well as in that place is less confusion inwards terms of the inherent contradictions which be at present.

 Mishaps aside, the client service I received was real skilful on the whole.  I'd hold back everybody else to acquire the same lineament of service - thence why I have detailed what happened to me.  Please experience gratis to reference this post past times way of setting out your expectations! :)

Now if they could exactly variety that ane concluding icon which has non disappeared from the site I'd last a happy bunny!

 If you lot desire to acquire to know to a greater extent than virtually the homo behind the site read this weblog post past times Kirsten Kowalski - Pinterest: How to preclude your Blogger images from beingness pinned
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