On Friday, iStockphoto issued a contributor update, wherein they announced the near completion of a new stock image licensing workflow, one which will allows payments directly from a credit card: This week we have an early peek for iStock contributors into some upcoming site news: soon iStock customers will be able to pay for file downloads directly with their credit card, without first having to purchase credits.
Once in a while, on the iStockphoto forums, a buyer will post questioning whether it is within the license restrictions to crop, tint or otherwise modify a stock image they have purchased. Certainly, in the case of iStockphoto at least, the answer is “Yes! Please do as you need to fit your project!”…
I haven’t been keeping a strong eye on the Pinterest copyright infringement situation lately, having a bunch of stock shoots and other work to do. However, yesterday, it popped back up on my radar when one of my earlier comments was quoted on Mashable.com:
I’ve been following a few threads on the net that I’ve found that have linked to my various articles on Pinterest and the copyright issues it faces. One of them led to a discussion on Linked In, which I joined. One poster mentioned that Pinterest usage is “fair use” and isn’t doing any damage, since they aren’t making any money off of the “pinned” image. I disagreed, and the poster mentioned a specific business and that Pinterest “is a wonderful […]
The past several weeks have seen lots of publicity about Pinterest.com as well as its/its users’ copyright infringement of third party works. Yesterday, co-founder Ben Silbermann posted in their blog: Over the last few weeks, we’ve been working on an update to our Terms. When we first launched Pinterest, we used a standard set of Terms. We think that the updated Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, and Privacy Policy are easier to understand and better reflect the direction our company is headed in […]
It’s about time for a portfolio update of a new stock image series. The Pinterest articles have proved popular, and in the last week or two, the mainstream media has started to pick up on the issues with Pinterest and copyright infringement, so a Google search shows plenty of views and opinions on the subject. I will likely collect a batch of more up to date articles for fun reading later this week to post here. So, back to the […]
Apparently, all the discussion about Pinterest and copyright has caught the attention of the company higher-ups over there. Last Wednesday, I mentioned that by putting a special meta tag in the header of the html for a page, Pinterest would disallow pinning by their bookmarklet. I thought this was something that I had originally missed while scanning through their help documentation. However, it seems like this was actually a new attempt (along with a 500 character limit on comments) to […]
In reading comments on other blogs about the Pinterest copyright problem, one of the things that people are taking issue with is poor “pinning etiquette”, one facet of which is not “pinning” to the original source image so that the original artist gets credit and a link. Again, credit and/or a link is not a way to get around copyright infringement. If you have the desire to use someone’s image on your blog, you should secure the proper license/permission to […]
We’ve been talking about Pinterest, and by extension, all the wave of “___board” sites, like Juxtapost.com . One additional problem occurred to me today, as I was reading comments on a blog post about using Pinterest to promote non-profit groups. I think, up until this point, I’ve been pointing out that “pinning” images to these sites merely infringes copyright of the, usually, unwilling, original artist. However, what if the content is not merely being used for a “I love this” […]
The issue of Pinterest’s continued copyright infringement is spreading to blogs across the web. Here are some more articles on the issue. I was trying to come up with ways Pinterest could appear like it cares about the rights of the artists it is currently infringing upon. One thought was to require that site owners submit their website to Pinterest for indexing as a sign of “permission” and then Pinterest users could browse submitted imagery for “inspiration”. The “Napster” author […]
