I am not a Pinterest user, but made a profile years ago to be able to see images that came up in google searches. It seems to have gotten much worse than it used to be, ie there is no way to find the original author of images. I don't know specifics of fair use or copyright law, but this is fundamentally a disservice to users on both sides (content creators and consumers). I don't understand the comparison to google images at all, what with links to where the images originated versus hosting on their own servers. Pinterest has the ability to inherently link to original content versus downloading content but chooses not to. Sometimes the only way to find the original image is to upload image to google and match it to others on the web. I understand that pinterest puts in on to users to cite origin of image, but why when it could quite easily include that info as well in its ui? Searching images and running into pinterest dead ends has become the bane of my internets. // end rant
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I am not a Pinterest user, but made a profile years ago to be able to see images that came up in google searches. It seems to have gotten much worse than it used to be, ie there is no way to find the original author of images. I don't know specifics of fair use or copyright law, but this is fundamentally a disservice to users on both sides (content creators and consumers). I don't understand the comparison to google images at all, what with links to where the images originated versus hosting on their own servers. Pinterest has the ability to inherently link to original content versus downloading content but chooses not to. Sometimes the only way to find the original image is to upload image to google and match it to others on the web. I understand that pinterest puts in on to users to cite origin of image, but why when it could quite easily include that info as well in its ui? Searching images and running into pinterest dead ends has become the bane of my internets. // end rant