Partnering with Pinterest

I'm a little bit behind but have just discovered Pinterest. I'm not happy either. My issue is not so much that things are linked back to us (though I'm grateful this is the case) but I'm not happy about the fact I make my photos non-right clickable on 500px, only to find that you can right click on the image in Pinterest no probs! I've just tried this on another 500px user. His photo on his 500px is non right-clickable, but on the page of the lady who's pinned it to her Pinterest, you can easily hit 'save as'. I find this worrying. What is the point of us trying to protect our images on 500px if someone can effectively steal our image so easily and then break down that one bit of deterrent we have?! At least give us the option of switching it off.

No thanks to 500px for this
You have now put a steal me button below all of my images and given me no rights or ability to remove it
SHAME ON YOU!!
Its a bit ironic that there is no pintrest button below the images on this blog...

Are you bringing in an option to remove it like now??? the comments posted were a month ago saying and i use this without claiming copyright on the OP's words "Pinterest and our developers are now working on the option not to share images."
It took TrekEarth.com approx 2 weeks to implement a turn off option
It took Photo4me.com less than a week but you guys are now a month in and its not anywhere i can find it.
I am now stuck betwen a rock and a hard cold knife. If my images have been pinned from here and i delete them they become orphanded and not trackable back to me
If i leave them on here i am continually being beasted and robbed

I didnt say i wanted my images stolen from me you didnt ask me if i did

I understand the risks of theft on the internet but pintrest is set up specifically to steal images and post them round the internet whilst assuming copyright is held by the pinner not the artist..
I may not be the photographer with the largest following, i may not be the best you have but my work is my work and you violated my rghts by "Partnering" with this site and not giving us the option to turn it off.

I came to 500px after hearing you guys talk on this week in photo about the great ethos and how much this meant to you. I suggest you show me as an artist the respect i deserve and get that theft button off my work or at least install an option so i can...
Once this is done email me to let me know. A blog post wont cut it as i only found out about the pinning by accident lat night when i found one of mine on one of pintrests many pages of stolen images.

With technology you can pin anything, even if there isn't a "share" button. On almost every POD site they have an email option. Even though it is a small res image I can email an image to myself , save it and load it up on Pinterest. It is theft but most people don't see it as wrong. They have the attitude, well if everybody else is doing it then so can I. I have seen many images on Facebook that get shared and every now and again somebody will load it as their own and share it. The members on Pinterst don't care about the size they are just pinning an image.

Love it or hate it Pinterest is here to stay. It is growing each day and unfortunately the average Jane/Jo out there don't know about copyright laws. They seem something they like and they click away.

I hate Pinterest and I wouldn't want my images shared on that site. I will never be able to stop it. I have far better things to do than to sit and go through the site looking for my work.

I have an account there, but barely I use it -
I guess I should get used to the new Digital loudspeaker tools in the Digital Era (DE)

"my personal belief is that the more people see and like you photos, the more popular you will become"

I'm sorry but I don't recall telling you I wanted to be "popular". What I want is to be "protected" by 500px. Involuntary sharing of my images is facilitating illegal breach of my proprietary rights. Others call it theft, but I prefer to stick with the fact of unauthorised use of copyright.

The Terms of Use of 500px include your undertaking that I retain full ownership and rights in my images and any intellectual property rights and all other proprietary rights associated with my Content. I note also the words you use in big font next to those Terms: We will protect the copyright.

In unilaterally allowing anyone to pin any of my images to Pinterest, I'd dearly love to know how it is you think you have complied with your undertakings.

You have now admitted you can in fact introduce the option not to share. Rather than wasting time trying to sell me the mythical "benefits" of imposing sharing of my property, which I care nought for, why don't you Just Do It? Then we can ALL be happy. Those who have no problem with sharing and embrace it will continue to love you, and those of us who do have a problem with it will begin to respect your administration.

I've never seen any pins from 500px that mentions the photographers name, not one...

The only attribution is 500px....I'd be very interested to know how many people actually click on the photos to come back to 500px. Probably only those people who are trying to get DMCA's prepared.

I've been using stats for ages, and have not found one instance of anyone coming to my work from that gaping hole in the ground. We just get lost, and pinterest reaps the benefit, not the artist.

I would like to have the option to not share photos on Pinterest, thank you!

You seem to be oblivious to the pending legal actions against Pinterest for their gross violations of copyright (think Napster). Ask yourself why other photography sites won't enable pinning.

Sharing is great, but only if its voluntary, not forced. You have disempowered me from sharing my images in accordance with my copyrights.

I do not recall being asked by 500px if I wanted the copyright in my images to be violated in this way. Legally, you should have installed an optional block to pinning in the meta data for my pages. Pinterest provides the code for this purpose. I request you do so.

By enabling, without exception, the pinning of every single image on 500px, you have also handed Pinterest another free source of revenue - from OUR images.

I notice you also have not disclosed whether you are providing Pinterest with hi-res copies of our images.

I am currently preparing a DMCA notice to be served on Pinterest in respect of the copyright violations so far incurred by Pinterest members in relation to my images. Pinterest has a process for this purpose because they are used to being told to remove images from their site, and they are aware of the consequences of failing to comply with a validly formatted and served DMCA notice.

I would encourage all 500px members to think beyond the touchy feelies of involuntary "sharing".

I fully expect 500px management to delete this comment, but I ask that they also think about what they have done, the consequences, and whether it might be a good idea to offer its members, ie US, the ability to disable pinning to the biggest copyright violator on the web.

One of my photos has more than 1000 repins, but i found it on this site with big troubles, because there was not my name under the photo. So it is not automatically, as you said:) look here http://pinterest.com/pin/286823069988565368/

Good stuff.

Awesome stuff guys and thanks for using my photo as an example :)

It is so great to have you on pinterest. Wow what a great feature to have wonderful photo's to pin right at your finger tip's.

well done guys

You could use Pinterest instead of the old and ugly LiveJournal, now… ;-)

Excellent! Embrace and move forward.

I think this is a brilliant idea! Thank-you so much for the extra exposure. Pinterest is where I first heard of 500px so this is a natural fit. Well done!