{"id":1541,"date":"2012-03-24T21:34:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T04:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2012-03-24T21:44:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T04:44:39","slug":"pinterest-pins-all-copyright-violations-on-its-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2012\/03\/24\/pinterest-pins-all-copyright-violations-on-its-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinterest Pins All Copyright Violations On Its Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.businessinsider.com\/2012-02-28\/tech\/31106641_1_repinning-copyright-entire-image\">interesting story<\/a> about a Pintrest users that deleted her account after the social blogging platform changed it&#8217;s Terms of Service.  Essentially, as stated in the article, Pinterest users are legally responsible for what the pin (post) and repine (re-post).  Only under a limited number of circumstances can someone use copyrighted material without express written permission from the copyright holder\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCopyrighted work can only be used without permission when someone is criticizing it, commenting on it, reporting on it, teaching about it, or conducting research.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fair use of copyrighted material, as described above, seemed reasonable in a physical world.  But in a digital world where people first express themselves in social networking sites, I believe fair use of copyrighted material should include retweeting, liking, plus one-ing, rebloging, and sharing as these imply some level of commenting on the work by the the original poster and her network of friends and followers.<\/p>\n<p>The good news for Pinterest is that most users don&#8217;t read, understand, or care about the Terms of Service. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1542\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><span class=\"frame-outer  size-large wp-image-1542\"><span><span><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1542\" data-attachment-id=\"1542\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2012\/03\/24\/pinterest-pins-all-copyright-violations-on-its-users\/tos\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ToS.png\" data-orig-size=\"627,497\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"I Accept\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;I Accept, Terms of Service&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ToS-300x237.png\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ToS-535x424.png\" src=\"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ToS-535x424.png\" alt=\"I Accept, Terms of Service, deleteyourself.com\" title=\"I Accept\" width=\"415\" height=\"329\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1542\" srcset=\"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ToS-535x424.png 535w, http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ToS-300x237.png 300w, http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ToS.png 627w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><p id=\"caption-attachment-1542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I Accept, Terms of Service, deleteyourself.com<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting story about a Pintrest users that deleted her account after the social blogging platform changed it&#8217;s Terms of Service. Essentially, as stated in the article, Pinterest users are legally responsible for what the pin (post) and repine (re-post). Only under a limited number of circumstances can someone use copyrighted material without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,342,3],"tags":[275,679,647,678,677,347],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-oR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}