[huggyface]

It has nothing to do with creating a hyperlink. It has to do with misappropriating copyrighted content for commercial purposes.

[Karunamon]

Rephrase, Everyone on the internet shouldn't have to ask permission when they want to create a hyperlink on a public site.

[btipling]

It's not a hyperlink, pininterest is either hot-linking or making a copy of images to which it has no copyright for and for which the users who added these images do not have copyright access to.

[Karunamon]

>It's not a hyperlink, pininterest is either hot-linking or making a copy of images to which it has no copyright for and for which the users who added these images do not have copyright access to.

More likely than not, hotlinking. Also, lawyers ruin everything.

[staunch]

Pinterest is downloading images from other sites and hosting it on their own servers. No one is complaining about linking or even hotlinking.

[wanderr]

Couldn't that be considered caching? Wouldn't people be upset if they were hotlinking?

[franze]

pinboard, del.icio.us, ... (if other bookmarking sites still exist, please add here) is downloading title-text from other sites and hosting it on their own servers. what's the difference?

[staunch]

It seems reasonable to me that taking meta-data would fall under fair-use but taking the actual media wouldn't.

For example: Scraping <title> tags off Netflix would be legit, but copying Netflix video files wouldn't.