Pinterest users lifting pictures from forum
I've always said watch all what you post about your personal information regarding your family and RV on a public forum. A friend of mine found a picture of my RV that I posted here on Pinterest. A...
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You can Pin anything ..... and it shows up in your feed. That doesn't necessarily mean you are claiming it's yours. Most Pins take people back to the original site. Pinterest is basically a search engine. Most photos on web sites are put up by people who WANT them to be re-used/Pinned, to direct more traffic to the site.
But assuming the person DID claim it was her RV--the only issue with someone claiming a pic is theirs, when it is not, is copyright infringement. Any photo automatically is copyrighted to the person who took it. But any legal claim would be very very difficult to enforce. You can file a take-down request, as someone said above, and Pinterest will probably comply with it.
Commercial photographers who post their images online do so at such low resolution the images could not be used for any other commercial purpose, and many use a big watermark in the middle of the pic. There is also software to search for matches to images, and many photographers and stock photo agencies use it to enforce their rights, some very aggressively.
Now if someone sees your rig in a parking spot or campground, and makes their own photo, with our without you and your family in it, that is perfectly legal. You are in a public place where there is no expectation of privacy. The catch comes in if they have YOU in the photo, and then use the photo for commercial purposes without your permission. That's another separate issue.
You should pretty much assume that any image you post online can and will be used by others. I can right-click on any image on this site, or on Facebook, and save it to my computer, and do what I want with it. That's a good reason to not put family pics on an unsecured site, or let them be shared by others.
Most sites that host galleries for commercial photographers, such as Zenfolio or Snugmug, have the right-click option disabled. But I can still get the image with a screenshot or snip tool. That's why most online gallery images are still watermarked and at low resolution.
But assuming the person DID claim it was her RV--the only issue with someone claiming a pic is theirs, when it is not, is copyright infringement. Any photo automatically is copyrighted to the person who took it. But any legal claim would be very very difficult to enforce. You can file a take-down request, as someone said above, and Pinterest will probably comply with it.
Commercial photographers who post their images online do so at such low resolution the images could not be used for any other commercial purpose, and many use a big watermark in the middle of the pic. There is also software to search for matches to images, and many photographers and stock photo agencies use it to enforce their rights, some very aggressively.
Now if someone sees your rig in a parking spot or campground, and makes their own photo, with our without you and your family in it, that is perfectly legal. You are in a public place where there is no expectation of privacy. The catch comes in if they have YOU in the photo, and then use the photo for commercial purposes without your permission. That's another separate issue.
You should pretty much assume that any image you post online can and will be used by others. I can right-click on any image on this site, or on Facebook, and save it to my computer, and do what I want with it. That's a good reason to not put family pics on an unsecured site, or let them be shared by others.
Most sites that host galleries for commercial photographers, such as Zenfolio or Snugmug, have the right-click option disabled. But I can still get the image with a screenshot or snip tool. That's why most online gallery images are still watermarked and at low resolution.
