Great read, as I have said before this model works only in Getty's favor you have to have massive scale to earn real income let's say they get 25 cents per image on Pinterest and you get 0.2 cents. Ahhh you can figure the rest!

I've had images removed from pinterest quickly, but it's a hassle to keep checking.

Quote from: ShadySue on January 07, 2014, 14:48

I've had images removed from pinterest quickly, but it's a hassle to keep checking.

Why would you want your images removed from Pinterest ? Don't you want people to know about them ?

There was no credit or link to anything which would indicate that they were by me (except those taken from Flickr (two that I've found) which have my watermark, but someone would have to make the effort to get my name off the watermark and google that, and neither of these are on sale). Only Getty images are in that deal, not iS images ATM, and this was before the Getty announcement.

When I complained to iS about iS pics being lifted possibly from legitimate buyers and pinned, iS told me pinterest were iS 'partners'. I asked what benefit there was for iS or me in totally unlinked, uncredited images being pinned (after all, a non-editorial buyer has no obligation to provide a credit, and even found in-use editorials are more often uncredited than not), and like all 'awkward' questions, it just 'disappeared' off my support ticket list, unanswered.

See if you can do better and explain why I should be happy?

I find my stuff there all the time. My stuff ends up on food blogs and they always allow pinning. It would take me forever to try and get them all removed, plus I'd lose sales from my repeat customers that follow me. I don't know what if anything I can do about it. I'm sure I could eventually get them pulled, but is it worth the effort if it links back to the original use? I don't know....