Is Pinterest a copyright time bomb?
MIT Tech Review hails Pinterest’s terms of use as a genius-level copyright dodge. And while that may be so, its position is disingenuous to the point of irony.
The problem is that “sharing whatever you like” and copyright infringement are, well, sort of the same thing. Especially as Pinterest encourages people to use “nice big versions” of what they find, and to “share from more than one source”.
On one hand Pinterest makes it easy to grab images from all over the Internet, even though the terms of use say that’s something users will never do…
