Stock-Photos Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 (edited) With the extreme changes to photo.net I'm finding the worst change seems to be that a pin-it button is now under all my photos as displayed on full page view. There seems to be no option to remove the pinterest button. Pinterest, and the placement of their button, facilitates some of the worst and most widespread copyright infringement anywhere on the internet. Pinterest users copy images at full size to Pinterest servers each time an image is "pinned" or "stolen". Consider reading these articles: http://www.pcworld.com/article/250700/what_you_should_know_about_pinterest_and_copyright.html http://www.ipbrief.net/2015/08/31/pinterest-free-advertising-or-copyright-infringement-the-fight-of-a-photographer-to-protect-the-rights-of-his-industry/ I've been a paying photo.net member for 10+ years. I don't want photo.net facilitating and promoting Pinterest copyright infringement of my portfolio. I've spent may hours removing my images from Pinterest. As a long time, paying user of photo.net I won't renew my membership unless photo.net gives me the option to remove the "pin-it" button. Photographers who will respond with comments like "If you don't want your photos copied, don't post them online". Save it please. I publish my photos to photo.net. I don't pay photo.net membership fees to to have copyright infringement of my work promoted by photo.net. Duplicating content on the web weakens the original and does not help photographers. Edited February 26, 2017 by Stock-Photos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Bortnick Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Second the motion, in fact we should have the "opt in" option for all the social media buttons. It is supposed to be about the photography, not sociability, that is why I come here & pay to support PN. Perhaps that can be an option for those of us who do pay to support the site. One of the perks (?) of membership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Schaefer Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Another second for the motion. I have the same view of Pinterest as the OP; the entire site is one large copyright infringement and I am somewhat surprised that it is allowed to exist at all (most users are probably unaware that every pin is most likely a copyright infringement as they either have not read or not understood Pinterest TOS). I filed a few take-down notices but have eventually given up since it took way too long to find each and every occurrence of a stolen image. Hardly any link back to flickr (as required by flickr's TOS); I found several that actually had more views on Pinterest than the original had on flickr. Flickr gives the user to option to enable or disable sharing (though it's an either or for all the different sites) and I think photo.net should provide the same. If someone wants to share my images they can feel free to copy the image's URL, there's no need to steal the image outright. Or they can ask for my permission to use an image. It says "all rights reserved" not "free for all to take and use as they please". Photographers who will respond with comments like "If you don't want your photos copied, don't post them online". Save it please. Indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stock-Photos Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 I dont expect we'll see any response from the photo.net administrators. I put in a feedback complaint about the Pinterest issue but heard nothing back. In fact several months ago I saw that the person in charge of photo.net had actually pinned thousands of members images to Pinterest. I just don't understand it. Apparently photo.net does not need my membership fees any longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stock-Photos Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 Here's the laterest terms of service that i now have a problem with. We respect our users' intellectual property, and claim no copyright to anything posted on the site by our users. However, as a stipulation of using photo.net, we retain the right to keep and display anything posted by users on photo.net as part of the site indefinitely. If you are not prepared to accept this, please do not upload or contribute anything to photo.net. We respect our users' intellectual property, and claim no copyright to anything posted on the site by our users. However, as a stipulation of using photo.net, we retain the right to keep and display anything posted by users on photo.net as part of the site indefinitely. If you are not prepared to accept this, please do not upload or contribute anything to photo.net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-P Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Social Media buttons toggle on/off portfolio and photo is coming. Apologies for delayed response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-P Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 Here's the laterest terms of service that i now have a problem with. We respect our users' intellectual property, and claim no copyright to anything posted on the site by our users. However, as a stipulation of using photo.net, we retain the right to keep and display anything posted by users on photo.net as part of the site indefinitely. If you are not prepared to accept this, please do not upload or contribute anything to photo.net. We respect our users' intellectual property, and claim no copyright to anything posted on the site by our users. However, as a stipulation of using photo.net, we retain the right to keep and display anything posted by users on photo.net as part of the site indefinitely. If you are not prepared to accept this, please do not upload or contribute anything to photo. On your comment about our Terms of Use - they really haven't changed at all since I've been here (so 2010), I'd have to dig to see when that was dated. As a rule of thumb, users have the ability to remove their own photos on their own. When it comes to making comments in our forums - we do not delete entire accounts. If a user no longer wants their name associated with the account we can handle that via a name change. Comments made in forms generally follow a flow and that continuity is needed otherwise the threads meaning would be compromised. Just wanted to provide some perspective - its really about keeping continuity of conversations going so our forum threads make sense. Imagine someone is involved in a conversation - contributes 10 entries to a conversation, then we just delete the account and all forum contributions...that thread would no longer make any sense. Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stock-Photos Posted June 24, 2017 Author Share Posted June 24, 2017 Social Media buttons toggle on/off portfolio and photo is coming. Apologies for delayed response. Any chance anyone is setting up the option to opt out of the copyright infringing PINTEREST SHARE buttons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Z Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 If you go to your Account, there is a toggle labeled "Share Content Buttons" that should take care of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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