Pinterest may lead to tears

Pinterest it comes to sharing photos and things you enjoy the photos.
A wedding dress, your favorite character or a game of thrones Lakeside Cottage surprising that you found while browsing the Internet. But wait. Before the "subject" of the photo to your Pinterest "wall", he asked the owner of the photo for permission to use it?
Probably not.
Unlike Facebook, which invites you to share your own photos and ask them if they have the right to place an image at a time, "fix" social media Pinterest site will no longer be a matter of pressing a button.

Pinterest "conditions" the burden of responsibility on the user to verify that a violation of copyright or license to occur - most likely, the user could be prosecuted.
Their dependence on third images are protected by copyright law has often raised questions about the legality of the site.
Many photos are images from sites like iStockphoto and Getty Images, Yahoo or Flickr photo sharing site. Often, the photos are not credited, and some of the "Pines" or "Repin" no link to the original source of content - photographers and graphic designers who leave are not affected his images are stolen.
However, said Anthony Falzone, a law professor at Stanford Center for Internet and Society in the United States at least, has at least two Pinterest strong defense in court.
First, that could affect Pinterest 10 million users that the content of the indicator is copyright, so the site can be removed.
The function is called the place called "safe harbor" - a provision protects the copyright of the United States, Facebook or Youtube defendant before, if someone raises the contents are protected by copyright.
However, paid content Jeff Roberts said, because the site is largely protected from photographs, you may lose protection if continued.
Your question is, someone will sue?
"For content owners, one thing is to label hip-hop artists and music fans as" thieves. "But it is another when the content includes the food and clothing, photographs, even the most difficult to break the Visigoths copyright at the end of some 16 years, provides images, make a collage future of marriage, "writes Roberts.
Falzone said the site also fall under U.S. law by the "fair use" defense, as most of the photos are set to launch the debate: "Do you like this hairstyle is Angelina Jolie, too thin"
In addition, the use of images is not commercial and it is difficult to see how serious or substantial market for these photographs, Falzone said.
In fact, it could lead to traffic back to the original site Pinterest.
"There is a dimension of feelings of pain and injustice," said Falzone. "If users have been carefully what is the source of origin and the provision of credit or a link to the original, to appease a long excessively, these concerns are. "
Re-pin stills "encourages users to use and want," said Deborah Sweeney, an intellectual property lawyer and CEO of MyCorporation in an interview with PC World magazine. These photos could well Pinterest Users who use a blog or a website, even to the Terms of Use.
Pinterest and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act policy leaves some holes to get the job Pinterest "with the courts, because it can be used against you to prove it is a site to induce, promote, facilitate, promote could break ! ... "Said Phoenix lawyer Connie Mableson a blog.
An example of this is that the document contains no "repeat" policy.
However Pinterest has a piece of code that can be added to a site that offers users to "nail" to prevent the contents.
Flickr announced, is the assumption that PC Magazine "Killswitch Pinterest" requires that the contents can not be publicly named and shared.
Although, if someone really wants a photo, you can still get. As PC Magazine says, still possible serious or screen save your images and upload them manually to Pinterest.