Pinterest can get around this by claiming that it was the user who pinned the photo, not them, and they also allow websites to opt-out from pinning (and some websites like National Geographic actually do that). But if you self-host, you are responsible for what is posted...
I am asking because, if I could legally run a website where I would publish smaller version of any photo I find on the Internet, then well, there's a great monetization potential there. But I don't think it would be so easy.
You could honor a 'content="nopin"'. It's be interesting if that became a standard (similar to nofollow or robots.txt).
[1] https://help.pinterest.com/entries/21063792-How-to-prevent-p...
If someone has a copyright complaint with a public Pinry it will need to be directed at that individual because we really have no control over it and even if we did honor something like a nopin tag it's open source, it'll just get removed if someone wants to post copyrighted material.
And if not, what do you think would be a typical usecase, i.e. who would want to run Pinry-powered website?
Doesn't Google/Bing do this with their image search?
In practice, I suspect most copyright holders will send a DMCA takedown anyway, either to you or to the company hosting the site, if you're on a VPS or PaaS service.
The older BSD version -- https://github.com/overshard/pinry/tree/26f9c76988b8cc5b0ee5... -- looks like something I might play around with though.
Thanks for identifying the fork point as well.
It is a license that touts "ultimate freedom" but the reality is that it removes your freedom to make changes that you would like to keep private.
My point was that they did the work to associate "pin" with this concept in the public mind. Of course they don't own the word. That's just stupid. When people do these homages or clones, they are gaining traction and influence by riding on the work they did. Enforcement? Who cares... it's just unoriginal, cheap and lazy to trade on the name.
Both 'View the code' and 'Download' are bigger. People could ostensibly want to view the code before seeing it but I can't imagine many would want to download without demoing first.
1. Perhaps try shortening the copy. The large buttons could just read:
Code (Github) | Demo
Either increase the text size or also shorten the copy on the smaller buttons to fix the resulting size offset:
Download (62kb) | BitBucket | Issues
2. Your "Follow @getpinry" is overlapping the "Tweet" button.
3. I find the grey borders superfluous and a bit heavy-handed. I think you could just remove them, replace them with shadows, or lighten them and tint them a bit blue so that they don't stand out so much.
Looks great, btw. Have been looking for a platform on which to share inspiration with co-workers inside corporate intranet.
Running the actual Pinterest, with millions of users, would be pretty hard. (At least for those with no prior experience of working at scale.)
