Angie, I totally understand your concerns about what happens to your images. However, although I've seen many and varied 'warnings' that Pinterest is a terrible site that encourages copyright infringement etc, a good look at it suggests otherwise.
If you have a Pinterest account and install the button on your browser toolbar, whenever you see something you like on any site, anywhere, you can click the button to 'Pin it' and choose the element of the page that you want to feature. Pinterest then posts it on your chosen subject board (you create your own categories) as a link back to the original page. That way the author of the image is effectively credited and more attention is attracted to their work by Pinterest members pinning and sharing it. Unless, of course, someone has already stolen your picture the Pinterest member has found it posted where it shouldn't have been. That would not be Pinterest's fault.
I would suggest you go and have a browse for yourself and see what I mean. You may still not wish to allow people to use that site to praise and promote your work and, if that's the case, I think there might be a tool you can use on your own website that lets Pinterest know you don't want any of your content pinned. Not absolutely sure about that last bit, but I've certainly clicked the Pin It button to find that certain images/content on a site cannot be pinned.
I don't think I'd mind people pinning my work, unless they somehow got access to a photo that wasn't meant to be publicly viewable.
Hope that helps.
Avril
--- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, "angiephotographer" <angieknostphoto@...> wrote:
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> Cool, I will contact Tina about this. I don't fully understand Pinterest either, but it seems like, from what I hear other people say, that they are walking a fine line with image use/allowing infringements.
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> --- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, "Fred" <freddyv@> wrote:
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> > No, it is not.
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> > As you know, Angie, we try very hard to provide custom solutions to track down such uses and we do not deal with third parties to market images. I am not that familiar with Pinterest but we do not give people permission to use images on Acclaim Images for any reason unless they purchase a license.
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> > Contact tina@ with specific info so she can identify which image is yours and we will be happy to try to collect a licensing fee, or at least try to scare them away from using the image.
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> > Regards,
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> > Fred Voetsch
> > Owner - Acclaim Images, LLC
> > http://www.acclaimimages.com/
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> > --- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, "angiephotographer" <angieknostphoto@> wrote:
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> > > Is this an Acclaim related site? :
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> > > http://www.picstopin.com/1080/clipart-cute-dog-sleeping-royalty-free-vector-illustration-by-cory/http:||transparent*clipartof*com|Clipart-Cute-Dog-Sleeping-Royalty-Free-Vector-Illustration-10241092775*jpg/
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> > > I don't want my photos to be "pinned" on Pinterest. Fred, if this use is approved by Acclaim, please remove my pics from this scheme.
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> > > If this is not Acclaim approved, please contact this site to ask them to not allow "Pinning" of pictures.
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> > > Thank you.
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