Certainly DT has a right to promote whatever sites it chooses and the arguments Achilles makes are good ones. And OK I admit that I am not really into social media. But my personal opinion is that microstock agencies should not promote Pinterest at all. [Read more...] posted in I do not want my images shareable on sites like Pinterest. Please opt me out!

Certainly DT has a right to promote whatever sites it chooses and the arguments Achilles makes are good ones. And OK I admit that I am not really into social media. But my personal opinion is that microstock agencies should not promote Pinterest at all. The fact that Facebook and Google are doing somewhat the same thing, if less blatantly, does not make it good for us. Google has, through its actions toward authors and artists (ask the Authors Guild members, of which I am one, who sued Google for massive copyright infringement) and protests against SOPA and other support of pirates. The fact that this attack on copyright is expanding and becoming more blatant, in the likes of Pinterest, doesn't make it a good thing. Pinterest needs images to profit from, but do we really need Pinterest?This deprecation of copyright is a very dangerous trend, I think. Some people want to get rid of copyright, and Google, Pinterest, etc are supporting them. The more money they have to do this with the worse off we are.And IMO if we wait for J Klein and ******** to do the right thing, we may be waiting a long time. posted in I do not want my images shareable on sites like Pinterest. Please opt me out!