My Pinterest Flag Is Turned Off, But Things Still Getting Pinned

Having the Pinterest button grayed out just makes it harder for people without the Pinterest plugin. With the Pinterest plugin people can pretty much pin anything. I decided to embrace it and join Pinterest and pin my own work. I see far less "rougue" pins now. Either way be glad the pins are leading back to FAA. It's the broken ones that I have more concerns about, the one's that don't lead back to FAA and give people the impression they are public domain images.

I also found that people will pin stuff whether you enable it or not. I'd rather have them pin directly and have the link back here, so I enabled it.

It is not a loophole on FAA. So long as your url is available things can and will be pinned via Pinterest from people with a plug in.

Personally, I embraced the suck so to speak and just started pinning everything when I post it. At least that way I have some control over it and I have some darned popular repins.

While I cannot say how many sales it has lead to if any at all I will say that this has been pinned a few thousand times and has made me well over 2K at this point. Maybe the pins helped that along maybe they didn't.



Now, two days ago I had a repin followed shortly by a sale to that local. While somewhat tenuous I would take a WAEG that the pin lead to the sale. While they were here they also bought an image that was local to the buyer so again just a wild A$$ educated guess but that pin probably lead to those two sales.

Many times unfortunately and with no credit or link back to me. Others claiming it as their own work no less! You can contact pinterest and just explain that they were pinned without your permission. I have done this and they removed them. https://www.pinterest.com/about/copyright/dmca-pin/

"...be glad the pins are leading back to FAA. It's the broken ones that I have more concerns about, the one's that don't lead back to FAA and give people the impression they are public domain images..."

Ditto on that.

JC, nice image. We always referred to it as SWAG, as in Scientific ... :)

That works.... LOVE the new avatar, when is the Matrix 4 coming out anyway?

I finally gave in too....I've only had a couple repinned several times, but we'll see what happens. If they're gonna' steal it, they're gonna' steal it so you might as well have one out there with a link back here so you have some proof it's yours.

I just want to know how one of my photo has 100 pinterest . i sometimes make two or three but nt 100

My concern isn't keeping my work from being pinned, but enabling pinning of my work with MY OWN watermark that bears my name and a copyright symbol. Things pinned from FAA do not carry a URL back to my own site or any artist specific information (often the default caption is edited, and the artists' name disappears), and if my work is going to be shared, I want it shared with an attribute. I've chased down too many copy cat artists selling versions of my compositions, and am simply trying to do due diligence by clearly identifying my imagery. I understand this will not deter many, but in a court of law it does show that I'm doing my part to protect my property.

If the flag enabling pinning does not work (and I know there is hypertext that can be added to a page to block it), than FAA should remove it.

I do know, too, that screen captures and grabbing will happen, but again, if FAA is offering the option to shut down simple pinning (via their flag), then it should work as such.

I've opened another support call with an additional 8 pins discovered this morning - 3 of which came from FAA but didn't even carry a watermark. I'm thinking that the pinners are somehow able to pin from an order screen?

I'm hopeful this is just a simple loophole in the site that can be fixed!
Thanks for all your suggestions and support, Kim