Oh, Internets
So today, while reading Zoë Marriott's blog, I realized two things:
- Zoë Marriott does not look the way I have always pictured her, which is, I suddenly realize, like Zoë from Firefly. Now it makes sense! I was like, "Why did I just assume she looked like that?" But obviously it is a mystical Zoë connection.
- Zoë Marriott has made a Pinterest ( Read more... )
I agree; in a professional context it's generally a bad idea to repost stuff without permission. Do professionals do it anyway? Oh yes, they do. There seems to be a bit of a double standard for blogs v. Pinterest/Tumblr/etc.
To be fair, if you only posted images where the creator was at least identified, standard Internet etiquette would be satisfied. But it would still be illegal and some artists would still not be pleased. As you say, creators should have at least some control over what happens to their work.
To answer your question about what you can legally & ethically share: anything that's released under Creative Commons, anything that the content creator uploaded to Pinterest in the first place (or which has a "Pin Me" button on the page), anything in the public domain, anything for which the artist has a line on their website saying, "Go ahead and share stuff as long as you credit me."
I actually have an entire document about copyrighted images on the web that I wrote for work and can share with you if you think it would be helpful.
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Good point about Creative Commons, as there are a lot of good images out there under that license. I've used some of them (with credit, as directed) for things like book trailers and library posters. One could probably make a pretty good Pinterest board using just those images.
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