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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: stocked on January 07, 2014, 04:47
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http://photobusinessforum.blogspot.de/2013/12/deception-getty-images-pinterest-deal.html (http://photobusinessforum.blogspot.de/2013/12/deception-getty-images-pinterest-deal.html)
Blog-article from John Harrington you already find a German translation from Robert Kneschke on his blog.
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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!
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I haven't looked at Pinterest recently, but when I did basically if an image was there you could use the image legally as long as you kept the link back to pinterest - so essentially once it is on pinterest it is free for use and essentially owned by them. Any legal problems are shunted back to whoever posted it on pinterest. Now if Getty is essentially giving the stamp of approval to images there does that mean they are ok with the pinterest TOS?
I'd love to see the details of their agreement. I am also curious about Getty's use of metadata for images that are not Getty images.
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I've had images removed from pinterest quickly, but it's a hassle to keep checking.
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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 ?
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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?
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I haven't looked at Pinterest recently, but when I did basically if an image was there you could use the image legally as long as you kept the link back to pinterest - so essentially once it is on pinterest it is free for use and essentially owned by them. Any legal problems are shunted back to whoever posted it on pinterest. ...
We'll see how this goes, but I found an unwatermarked image of mine on Pinterest (http://www.pinterest.com/pin/201958364514387319/). I've submitted a DMCA takedown notice as I think this is an unlicensed use.
They've said it's "Courtesy of Shutterstock (http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=77132470)/Jo Ann Snover" and "Found on familyvacationcritic.com (http://www.familyvacationcritic.com/10-best-cities-for-family-vacations/art/)" (it's slide 8 of 12; can't get a direct link)
I'm sure the family vacation critic site licensed it correctly, but pinning the image itself has to be an unauthorized use. They could find the image at DT and pin it from there (but it'd be watermarked).
Has anyone had any success reporting stuff like this to Shutterstock as well - might they kick up a stink with Pinterest? If it comes down, the immediate problem is solved, but it'd be nice if the agencies would be more active in pursuing the lax policies at sites like this...
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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....