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    Sorry, Pinterest Users: Websites Can Now Block Pinning [VIDEO]

    By Joann Pan | Mashable – Mon, Feb 20, 2012

    Pinterest may be an Internet hit -- especially with U.S. women and Facebook CEOs. But not all companies want to ride the pinboard wave of referral traffic.

    [More from Mashable: Pinterest or Porn-terest? What the Social Network Is Doing to Keep It Clean]

    Now Pinterest has released code for companies that want to block the pinning of content from their sites to personal pinboards.

    Pinterest recently released the code in their help section, which companies can copy and paste into their websites, prompting a message with each pin attempt that states: “This site doesn’t allow pinning to Pinterest. Please contact the owner with any questions. Thanks for visiting!”

    [More from Mashable: How an African Chief Uses Twitter to Keep the Peace]

    SEE ALSO: 10 Most-Followed Users on Pinterest

    Josh Davis of LLsocial.com points out that 99% of the pins on Pinterest are against the company's own Terms of Service. Pinterest states that when users pin items, this indicates they are either the exclusive owners of the material or someone has granted them access to re-publish content.

    One of the points of "Pinterest Etiquette" also stands to remind users to credit sources.

    Though it is not enforced, Pinterest says, "finding the original source is always preferable to a secondary source such as Google Image Search or a blog entry."

    The copyright issues were exacerbated by the website's huge growth over the past year, according to Davis. Pinterest, he says, won't be the 2012 version Napster -- shutdown for copyright infringement in 2001 -- because "everyone loves Pinterest" and images. Even if the pins are not credited, Pinterest drives traffic back to the original source.

    Pinterest is moving towards correcting these flaws. Pinterest is currently following the Digital Millenmium Copyright Act, and will remove any image that someone claims is violating copyright laws.

    In addition, Pinterest is letting publishers embed a "Pin It" button directly on their website, which is a virtual permission slip for people to share content. To see an example of the pin button, look at T-shirt shop Threadless's site. The Pin It button sits next to other sharing buttons like Facebook and Twitter.

    In another effort to fight copyright infringement, Pinterest plans to limit pin captions to 500-characters to stop people from stealing blog posts, according to Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann. For now, the character limits are still being tested. Mashable will continue with Pinterest updates as they roll out.

    Tell us in the comments if you always credit sources when using Pinterest. When do you disregard crediting sources?

    This story originally published on Mashable here.

     

    7 comments

    • James
      James  •  Spokane, Washington  •  3 mths ago
      Websites blocking Pinterest is like turning down free advertising!! That would just be dumb!!
    • Tax the church
      Tax the church  •  3 mths ago
      I prefer thumb tacks
    • LastTrueConservative
      LastTrueConservative  •  3 mths ago
      Copyright is no problem because everyone loves Pinterest? Corporations love money lots more than Pinterest, guaranteed.
    • Steve
      Steve  •  3 mths ago
      This website is dumb.
    • Vader
      Vader  •  3 mths ago
      It is always the porn kings that screw up the Internet for everyone else. I think all pornography needs to be purged from the Internet, and those caught peddling it should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. If they are another country that won't clean it up they should be dropped from the Internet that we subscribe too. Maybe we need a clean Internet and a sewer internet for the sick basatrds.
      • James
        James 3 mths ago
        ..... what reality do you live in?
      • jason
        jason 3 mths ago
        what a completely stupid thing to say...
      • Facebook_h8tr
        Facebook_h8tr 3 mths ago
        Is that you, Hillary? I told you to stay off the internet and wait upstairs!!!!!!
    • Clyver
      Clyver  •  Buffalo, New York  •  3 mths ago
      hey Vader other than having to man-up and grow a set..think of this if porn was what we all wanted gone..then we wouldn't be searching it out. The fact that you want it gone states you do look for it as well..for that is what we do in life live hypocrytically of what we enjoy. besides all who search for it somewhere along the line will provide it for others..why..ok dumby...$$$$$$
      • David D.
        David D. 3 mths ago
        why is the fact, according to you, that if vader wants it gone he must be looking for it to? maybe he's just not a degenerate and has morals.
    • Clyver
      Clyver  •  Buffalo, New York  •  3 mths ago
      ok here let me get this..you all want socialism..but you want to limit what I socialize about..in other words you can be a socialist with an opinion, but then you want to regulate the socializing. Sounds like a bunch of pathetic weak type running this show here..can you say poor liberalism
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